Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism Routledge Research in Language and Communication Series

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 parts, 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 part 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 radicalized 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

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Katie Jane Patterson obtained her PhD in 2016 after receiving a national scholarship from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (ID AHRC: 1366032). She has held full-time teaching positions at the University of Eastern Finland, University Austral de Chile, and the University of Roehampton in London.

Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio is a Full Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Granada. Since obtaining her PhD (1996), her work has combined her interest in the relationship between language and gender, CDA, CL, FL and SFL.