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
Articles
2023. Dualisms in Jihad: The role of metaphor in creating ideological dichotomies. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1, pp. 121–143
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
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 magazines… read more | Article
2017. Introduction. Lexical Priming: Applications and advances, Pace-Sigge, Michael and Katie J. Patterson (eds.), pp. xi–xxiii
Miscellaneous
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
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 | Chapter