Esra’ Moustafa Abdelzaher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esra’ Moustafa Abdelzaher plays a role.
Articles
Weaponizing words: Rhetorical tactics of radicalization in Western and Arabic countries Journal of Language and Politics 18:6, pp. 893–914 | Article
2019 This paper draws on Pratt’s (2009) description of the key linguistic operations in war-making: exhortation, offense, deception and mediation. The study postulates that ISIS enacts the four operations in the radicalization of Muslims in Arabic and Western countries. Using FrameNet, the four… read more
Compiling a cognition-based thematic monolingual lexicon: The case of violence Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:2, pp. 313–329 | Article
2017 This study falls within the scope of cognitive lexicography which uses cognitive linguistic theories in lexicographic practice. The main objective of the study is to create a cognition-based monolingual thematic lexicon. The lexicon tests the validity of using cognitive linguistics, which uses… read more