This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education.
The volume is divided into three sections, bridging different disciplinary perspectives in examining different dimensions of the language of extremism in case studies from around the world. The first section features contributions on extremist language from a political lens, such as in election campaigns and media discourse. The second section looks at religious extremism and language used for the purposes of jihadist radicalisation and recruitment. A final section reflects on policy development, peace education, and conflict resolution, toward discussing ways to subvert radicalised discourses and future research building on these efforts.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, language and communication, and language education, as well as related fields such as psychology, political science, and sociology.
List of Contributors Acknowledgements 00. Introduction: Pushing Radical Agendas to the Extreme: How an Extremist Ideology Takes Root (and How It is Spread amongst the Masses), Katie Jane Patterson & Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio 01. Ideology and Populism of the Reactionary Right, Teun A. van Dijk 02. Populist Atitudes and Radical Activism in the USA, José Javier Olivas Osuna, Enrique Clari & Jocelyn J. Bélanger 03. Against the Civil Society’s Centre: Mimetic Crises by the German Populist Right, Polina Zavershinskaia 04. “Nothing but a Strategy of Satan and the Media”: How Religious Fundamentalism and Populist Leaders Took over the Scientific Narration of the Pandemic, Michele Martini 05. “Stirring Up the Hornet’s Nest”. Radicalization Strategies of the Spanish Far-Right Twitter Followers, Francisco José Sánchez-García 06. Hijab Controversy in Iran: Sentiment Analysis of #MahsaAmini Tweets, Ruth Breeze & Saqlain Hassan 07. Exploring the Application of Computer Vision to Detect Faces and Emotions: An Analysis of Radical Right-Wing Leaders, Ignacio-Jesús Serrano-Contreras & Javier García-Marín 08. Terrorism and Perception, Federico Aznar Fernández-Montesinos & Katie J. Patterson 09. Recruiting Magnets of Jihadi Radicalization: Unity, Redemption and Manicheanism, Djallil Lounnas & Massimo Ramaioli 10. Representing “Muslims” in Jihadist Magazines: An Analysis of the NUTCRACKER Corpus Topics, Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Tony McEnery 11. Forced Lexical Primings as Evidence of Power Relations in Jihadist Magazines, Michael T. L. Pace-Sigge 12. Echoes of Extremism: Rap Music-Jihadism Dialogue and Violent Radicalization among Western Youth, Jonatan Morillo Losada 13. Hate Speech under International Law and the Challenging Task of Striking a Balance between a Legitimate and a Forbidden Opinion, Andrea Cocchini 14. A Grassroots Model for Preventing Radicalisation: Fostering Belonging, Bridging Social Capital, Voice and Networking to Promote Successful Integration, Francesc Torras & Jordi Collet 15. Counter Terrorism in a Pre-crime Space: Safeguarding, Radicalisation and Extremism in Schools in England, Lynn Revell Index
Katie Jane Patterson obtained her PhD in 2016 from the University of Liverpool. She has held full-time teaching positions at the University of Eastern Finland, University Austral de Chile, and the University of Roehampton in London. She now works at the University of Granada. Her research interests include metaphor, lexical priming and discourse analysis. Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio is a Full Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Granada. Since obtaining her PhD, her work has combined her interest in the relationship between language and gender, language and politics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics.
