Lexical Priming: Applications and advances
Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 79] 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.
Katie J. Patterson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katie J. Patterson plays a role.
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Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 They were not radical, even when they committed that: An appraisal-driven discourse analysis of feelings and attitudes towards the 17-A terrorist cell in Barcelona Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:2, pp. 139–170 | Article
Identity conflict and the loss of meaning experienced by some Muslim young people in Western countries are key factors behind fanaticism, leading some of them to find purpose in life within extremist groups (Adam-Troian et al. 2021; Moyano and González 2021). The narrative that emerges from the… read more
2023 Dualisms in Jihad: The role of metaphor in creating ideological dichotomies Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1, pp. 121–143 | Article
This paper explores how metaphors are employed in jihadist magazines to promote a dichotomist worldview of ‘us’ versus ‘them’, ‘good’ versus ‘bad’, ‘east’ versus ‘west’ and ‘right’ versus ‘wrong’. It argues that juxtapositions in both language and thought help writers to reaffirm and/or… read more
2022 Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad: A corpus-based critical analysis of religious metaphors in jihadist magazines The Discourse of Terrorism, Hidalgo-Tenorio, Encarnación and Juan L. Castro (eds.), pp. 477–500 | Article
The ideological discourse of Jihadist groups like Al Qaeda or Islamic State is largely built on the use of persuasive techniques which act as instruments for radicalisation and recruitment, and more generally, “convince the audience of the veracity of the doctrine presented” (Adam 2017: 5). This… read more
2022 Approaches to the discourse of terror: How power relations are represented through forced primings in jihadist magazines The Discourse of Terrorism, Hidalgo-Tenorio, Encarnación and Juan L. Castro (eds.), pp. 404–430 | Article
This chapter presents an investigation into the evidence of fixed language use within jihadist magazines and the extent to which these fixed patterns reflect specific power relations within the text community. The research presents the hypothesis that the writers of articles in jihadist… read more
2017 Introduction Lexical Priming: Applications and advances, Pace-Sigge, Michael and Katie J. Patterson (eds.), pp. xi–xxiii | Introduction
2017 Lexical priming and metaphor – Evidence of nesting in metaphoric language Lexical Priming: Applications and advances, Pace-Sigge, Michael and Katie J. Patterson (eds.), pp. 141–161 | Chapter
Metaphoricity is often regarded as a distinctive linguistic phenomenon, in opposition to literal, or non-figurative language. Recent research from a corpus-linguistic perspective has begun to show, however, that such a dichotomist stance to metaphor does not bear scrutiny (Deignan 2005; Partington… read more