Words make worlds terrorism and language

Smith, Angus

doi:10.1037/e409282008-003

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“…Indeed, in reporting on terrorism, politicians and the press are argued to be prone to the misappropriation of terms, particularly words such as jihad, terrorism and fundamentalism, potentiaUy leading to misunderstandings or intolerance between religious/ethnic groups (CoUins & Glover 2002, Smith 2007. Renold (2002), for example, argues that the American press use the term fundamentalism so frequently in association v«th Islam that it has become inappropriately synonymous with the religion.…”

Section: Linguistic Studies Of Extremismmentioning

confidence: 97%

The language of Islamic extremism

Prentice

Rayson²,

Taylor³

2012

IJCL

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Recent studies have sought to understand individuals' motivations for terrorism through terrorist material content. To date, these studies have not capitalised on automated language analysis techniques, partictilarly those of corpus linguistics. In this paper, we demonstrate how applying three corpus-linguistic techniques to extremist statements can provide insights into their ideology. Our data consisted of 250 statements (approximately 500,000 words) promoting terrorist violence. Using the online software tool WMatrix, we submitted these data to frequency count, key word and key concept, and concordance analyses. Results showed that authors centre their rhetoric on themes of morality, social proof, inspiration and appeals to religion, and refer to the world via contrasting concepts, suggesting a polarised way of thinking compared to a general population usage. Additionally, we show how collocation can aid the establishment of networks between people and places. We discuss how such analyses might support the formtilation of evidence based counter-terrorism strategies.

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Section: Linguistic Studies Of Extremismmentioning

confidence: 97%

The language of Islamic extremism

Prentice

Rayson²,

Taylor³

2012

IJCL

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“…For instance, Smith et al (2019) studied the construction of extremism in the U.S. media over 25 years and found that extremism has been framed as a security issue. The inappropriate use of terms such as terrorism and fundamentalism interchangeably with extremism in the press is also a significant factor in misunderstanding extremism (John Collins et al, 2002;Smith, 2007). Other researchers studied the discourse of what they claimed as extremist groups online using corpus linguistics techniques (see Brindle, 2009;Prentice et al, 2012) and demonstrated their associated topics (e.g.…”

Section: Identifying Extremism Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Mining ideological discourse on Twitter: The case of extremism in Arabic

Hamdi

2021

Discourse & Communication

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Extremism has been a problematic term to define and suggests different and opposing meanings. This study explores how Twitter users conceptualize extremism in Arabic and express their opinions/arguments to construct the term. A corpus of tweets was collected from Twitter API using the word ‘تطرف أو متطرف’ in Arabic for extremist/extremism. A topic modeling algorithm was then applied to the dataset to uncover latent associated concepts underlying extremism, followed by a critical discourse analysis using Van Dijk’s Sociocognitive approach. The discursive and linguistic strategies used by Twitter users to support and justify their views of extremism were examined. The findings demonstrate an ideological influence that controls the concept of extremism, keeping it open to manipulation to serve shared interests and goals. Arab users of Twitter use extremism to promote their groups’ positive schema against others-negative schema.

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“…Muslims in many countries were seen as subversive agitators, Jihadists, militants, and involved in vast pan-Islamic plots. More important, distorted and inflammatory linkages between Islam and terrorism can convince Muslims that the West is their enemy (Smith, 2007). Islam is repainted in the global consciousness as a religion of violence.…”

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Madaris in Pakistan: Religious and Social Challenges

Shahab

Ahmad

Qazi

et al. 2021

JBSEE

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Purpose: The nature and extent of religious and social challenges posed by the madaris have been studied by scholars on a micro level, but there is a need of methodologically investigating of the problems on a macro and global levels by using a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach to readdress these issues. The purpose of this research paper is to find out the role of for causing militancy in Pakistan and to recommend measures/strategies for de-radicalization in Pakistan. Design/Methodology/Approach: Agenda setting, priming and farming theories were used in this study. Qualitative content analysis method was used in this study to analyze the editorial policy of these three newspapers. Findings: The results revealed that all these three newspapers gave significant coverage to the peace talks issue but Nation gave more coverage to the issue. Findings also revealed that Dawn and The News, most of the time showed neutral behavior but tilted towards unfavorable position regarding peace talks. Nation showed strongly unfavorable behavior regarding peace talks. Implications/Originality/Value: So it is concluded that the government should take steps to take madaris in main stream education system in Pakistan. The funding should be checked and audited.

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Words make worlds terrorism and language

Cited by 4 publications

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The language of Islamic extremism

The language of Islamic extremism

Mining ideological discourse on Twitter: The case of extremism in Arabic

Madaris in Pakistan: Religious and Social Challenges

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