The Language of Violent Jihad

Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. He has written 20 books on various aspects of language, discourse and corpus linguistics. He is commissioning editor of the journal Corpora and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Rachelle Vessey is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Her research applying corpus linguistics and discourse analysis has been published in a range of international journals and she is the author of Language and Canadian Media (2016). Tony McEnery is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University. He has published widely on corpus linguistics and is the author of Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (with Andrew Hardie, 2011).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Terrorism and Language; 3. Collecting and Analysing Extremist Texts; 4. The In-Group; 5. The Out-group; 6. The Path of Jihad; 7. Linguistic Strategies; 8. Conclusion.

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