ISIS’s hybrid identity: a triangulated analysis of the <i>Dabiq</i> narrative

Strnad, Vladislav; Hynek, Nik

doi:10.1080/14702436.2020.1720513

Defence Studies

2020

DOI: 10.1080/14702436.2020.1720513

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ISIS’s hybrid identity: a triangulated analysis of the Dabiq narrative

Vladislav Strnad

Nik Hynek

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A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse: The case of Dabiq

Rasoulikolamaki,

Kaur,

Salahshour

2023

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Even after the demise of its territorial caliphate in 2019, ISIS persists as a potent threat, adapting to new technologies and maintaining its status as an active insurgency. Amidst the backdrop of the terror group’s demonstrated resilience, this paper examines its practice of (de)legitimation and language of persuasion through a multimodal argumentation analysis. It combines the argumentation strategies (topoi) proposed by Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) and tools from Social Semiotics with argumentation theories, achieved through a comprehensive enthymematic deconstruction of arguments in ISIS’s e-magazine, Dabiq. The findings reveal four interrelated sets of plausibly inferable premises, namely, advantage and disadvantage; threat and obligation; negative consequence and history; and authority and Shariah law. These premises fall within broad social, political, historical, and religious categories and are deliberately crafted to lend support to ISIS’s desired conclusions, aimed at systematically altering the addressees’ state of knowledge and eventually eliciting acceptance from the intended public.

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A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse: The case of Dabiq

Rasoulikolamaki,

Kaur,

Salahshour

2023

JLAC

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“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”

Bartley

2022

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Over the past decade, Islamic State (ISIS) has made numerous attempts to propagate their beliefs on a global scale via a range of social media platforms (e.g. Twitter), enabling them to reach an extensive audience within a very short time span; when successful, people enlist as supporters of their ideas and, essentially, become radicalised. ISIS also achieve this through publishing propaganda materials, such as the two online magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah (Heidarysafa et al. 2019). In this paper, our focus lies with the former. Through a transitivity analysis of three issues from Dabiq, this paper explores how the in-group (the believers) and the Other (the non-believers) are represented in the magazine. The transitivity framework is useful here because it exposes the linguistic choices that people make and, in turn, reveals how they perceive their world. To retrieve both quantitative and qualitative findings, the UAM Corpus Tool (O’Donnell 2016) is employed.

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ISIS’s hybrid identity: a triangulated analysis of the Dabiq narrative

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A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse: The case of Dabiq

A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse: The case of Dabiq

“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”

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