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The role of social affiliation in incitement: A social semiotic approach to far-right terrorists' incitement to violence.
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Language in Society . Sep2024, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p623-648. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- One key aspect of threat in terrorists' language is incitement to violence. Contributing to a fuller understanding of how terrorists use language to encourage people to join their cause, this article examines the role of evaluative language in incitement strategies used by a far-rightist to align with and alienate particular social groups. The Affiliation framework (Knight 2010a; Zappavigna 2011; Etaywe & Zappavigna 2021; Etaywe 2022a), as grounded in systemic functional linguistics, is used to understand how values and social bonds are leveraged in the process of incitement, as explored in a manifesto published online by Brenton Tarrant, preceding his 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand. The findings reveal two main affiliation strategies used for incitement: communion (forging solidarity and alignments) and alienation. These strategies function to construct opposing social groups in discourse, with the condemned groups positioned as a threat, hostility legitimated as morally reasonable, and violence as warranted. (Far-right extremism, incitement, hate crimes, affiliation, morality of terrorism, forensic linguistics, conspiracy theory discourse) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00474045
- Volume :
- 53
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Language in Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 180433099
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000404