Representing the West and “non-believers” in the online jihadist magazines<i>Dabiq</i>and<i>Inspire</i>

Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria; Kinzel, Anina; Walker, Luke

doi:10.1080/17539153.2018.1471081

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“…Qualitative studies have found that different forms of jihadist discourse include features like merging group and individual identities (Rothenberger et al, 2016); tailoring content to the addressees' perceived gender, as well as perpetuating a differentiation of the social roles of each gender (Johnston, Iqbal & True, 2020; see also Bermingham et al, 2009 on gender differences in radicalized individuals online); a polarized worldview in which agents are ascribed to opposing parties, such as 'good ' or 'bad', 'us' or 'them' (El-Nashar & Nayef, 2019;Etaywe & Zappavigna, 2021;Patterson, 2022); elements that convey negative polarity and explicit judgment in relation to the authors' religious and moral standards (Etaywe & Zappavigna, 2021); legitimizing violence by drawing on moral principles (i.e., a particular understanding of the Islamic religion; Rothenberger et al, 2016;El-Nashar & Nayef, 2019;Etaywe & Zappavigna, 2021); and presenting the Muslim community as a victim of the 'West' (cf. Lorenzo-Dus & Macdonald, 2018;Lorenzo-Dus, Kinzel & Walker, 2018), as a key element of a narrative that may lead radicalized individuals to take on the role of 'righter of wrongs' (Renaut, 2019;cf. Ingram, 2016).…”

Section: Linguistics and Terrorist Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Pragmatic linguistic analysis of the videos by terrorists of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks

Giménez García,

Queralt

2023

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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Three homemade audiovisual recordings filmed a few days before the 2017 terrorist attacks to Barcelona and Cambrils by some individuals involved in these events were weighed as evidence during the trial held at the Audiencia Nacional between November, 10 2020, and May, 27 2021. No expert in linguistics analyzed this evidence in the proceedings. In Spain, the literature on jihadist terrorism has focused on the process of radicalization (Vicente, 2018), including the use of digital media for this purpose (Torralba, 2019) and the importance of counter-narratives to battle it. However, few studies have analyzed terrorist productions from a linguistic perspective. This study examines the recordings screened in the trial for the 2017 attacks through the lens of the comprehensive model for pragmatic and discourse analysis put forward by Fuentes Rodríguez (2000, 2009). Results show how various linguistic devices perform multiple functions at the super-, macro- and microstructural levels, allowing the participants to address various audiences and fulfill three communicative goals. Participants claim membership of a jihadist community and convey a message aimed, on the one hand, to intimidate the viewers they discursively construct as their opponents and, on the other, to obtain recognition from those that share their ideological stance. The discursive singularities of these recordings and their commonalities with productions linked to other forms of terrorism are discussed against the literature.

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Section: Linguistics and Terrorist Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Pragmatic linguistic analysis of the videos by terrorists of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks

Giménez García,

Queralt

2023

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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“…Other cybercrime contexts, such as terrorism and online extremism have benefitted from more linguistic scrutiny. In recent years, terrorism propaganda has been analysed using Corpus Linguistics and CADS methods (see Kinzel, 2016;Baker & Vessey, 2018;Lorenzo-Dus et al, 2018). In the case of terrorism, integrating 'linguistic tools of enquiry can advance current knowledge of jihadist ideology groups' (Lorenzo-Dus et al, 2018: 1).…”

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The Language of Online Child Sexual Groomers - A Corpus Assisted Discourse Study of Intentions, Requests and Grooming Duration

Kinzel¹

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Online grooming has become a wide-spread and worryingly fast increasing issue in society. This thesis analyses a corpus of online grooming communication, made available by the Perverted Justice (PJ) archive, a non-profit organisation that from 2004 until 2019 employed volunteers, who pretended to be children and entered chat rooms to catch and convict groomers, collaborating with law enforcement. The archive consists of 622 grooming chat logs and approx. 3.7 million words of groomer language. A corpus of this database was built, and a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach used to analyse the language therein. Specifically, the language was compared to a reference corpus of general chat language data (PAN2012) and duration of online grooming and manipulative requesting behaviour were also investigated. The following research questions were answered: 1)What are the features of a corpus of online groomer language compared to that of a general digital chat language reference corpus? Is online groomer language distinct? How are online grooming intentions realised linguistically by online groomers?2)Does duration of grooming influence the grooming process/intentions? Is usage of specific words/specific grooming intentions associated with different duration of grooming? Can different duration profiles be established and, if so, what are the cut-off points for these duration profiles?3)How are requests realised in online grooming and how does duration influence this? How do groomers make requests and what support move functions do they use? Does duration influence how requests are made, and the type of support move function that are used?The thesis newly identifies nuanced linguistic realisations of groomers’ intentions and strategies, proposing a new working terminology for discourse-based models of online grooming. This is based on a review of the literature followed by an empirical analysis refining this terminology, which has not been done before. It finds evidence for two distinct duration-based grooming approaches and yields a fine-grained qualitative analysis of groomer requests, also influenced by grooming duration. There have only been very few studies using a CADS analysis of such a large dataset of groomer language and this thesis will lead to new insights, implications and significance for the successful analysis, detection and prevention of online grooming.

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“…522-523). Lorenzo-Dus et al (2018) conclude that while both Inspire and Dabiq authors construct an "us versus them" dichotomy between their respective groups and Westerners/non-believers, "Dabiq's discursive representation of 'the West' targets a wider variety of individuals and groups of people and geographical locations than Inspire's" and that "Inspire places a greater focus on the pejorative construction of 'the West' than Dabiq, suggesting that Al-Qaeda places more emphasis than ISIS on presenting 'the West' as the enemy of jihad" (Lorenzo-Dus et al, 2018, p. 521).…”

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Framing the Western Jihad: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Inspire, Dabiq, and Rumiyah Magazines

Hai¹

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From skilled propagandists to self-trained lone wolf attackers to armies of foreign fighters, so-called homegrown terrorists (or Western supporters of al Qaeda and Daesh) have played important roles in each movement's promotion, development and strategy. This dissertation project uses grounded theory analysis to examine the ways that al Qaeda and Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS) present their respective movements to English-speakers in Western societies. Ten issues of al Qaeda's Inspire, five issues of Daesh's Dabiq and five issues of Rumiyah (Dabiq's successor publication), published between 2011-2017, are studied. The analysis suggests that al Qaeda and Daesh employ three overlapping sets of frames in these English-language magazines. These frames position themselves within broader historical trends, establish their legitimacy as actors, and establish actors and actions (defining enemies, threats, heroes and recommended activities).2 According to Middle East scholar Will McCants (2015), the term "Dawla" came to mean state because of the Abbasid Caliphate in the eight century. After the overthrow of the Ummayad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliph proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the Muslim saviour who appears in the years leading up to the apocalypse) (p. 22, 27). This was called the "blessed revolution" dawla mubaraka, from which the empire then took its name: Dawla Abbasiyya (McCants, 2015, p. 27). According to McCants, Daesh shares quite a bit in common with the Abbasids including the symbols and colours (e.g. black flags), apocalyptic propaganda, and insurgency in Iraq and Syria. McCants claims that the Abbasids "… created a blue print for how to overthrow a Muslim Ruler, establish a Caliphate and justify both" (p. 27).3 This term is explained in a later section of this chapter.

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Representing the West and “non-believers” in the online jihadist magazinesDabiqandInspire

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

Pragmatic linguistic analysis of the videos by terrorists of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks

Pragmatic linguistic analysis of the videos by terrorists of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks

The Language of Online Child Sexual Groomers - A Corpus Assisted Discourse Study of Intentions, Requests and Grooming Duration

Framing the Western Jihad: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Inspire, Dabiq, and Rumiyah Magazines

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