Esra’ Moustafa Abdelzaher

List of John Benjamins publications for which Esra’ Moustafa Abdelzaher plays a role.

Articles

Abdelzaher, Esra’ Moustafa and Bacem A. Essam 2019 Weaponizing words: Rhetorical tactics of radicalization in Western and Arabic countriesJournal of Language and Politics 18:6, pp. 893–914 | Article
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
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