Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism

This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education.

The volume is divided into three sections, bridging different disciplinary perspectives in examining different dimensions of the language of extremism in case studies from around the world. The first section features contributions on extremist language from a political lens, such as in election campaigns and media discourse. The second section looks at religious extremism and language used for the purposes of jihadist radicalisation and recruitment. A final section reflects on policy development, peace education, and conflict resolution, toward discussing ways to subvert radicalised discourses and future research building on these efforts.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, language and communication, and language education, as well as related fields such as psychology, political science, and sociology.

Katie Jane Patterson obtained her PhD in 2016 from the University of Liverpool. She has held full-time teaching positions at the University of Eastern Finland, University Austral de Chile, and the University of Roehampton in London. She now works at the University of Granada. Her research interests include metaphor, lexical priming and discourse analysis.

Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio is a Full Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Granada. Since obtaining her PhD, her work has combined her interest in the relationship between language and gender, language and politics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics.