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Baele, Stephane J. 2019. Conspiratorial Narratives in Violent Political Actors’ Language. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 38 (5,6) : 706–734.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper articulates the concept of “conspiratorial narratives”—defined as stories which integrate a large range of events and archetypal characters from past and present in a single teleological explanation for the alleged suffering of a given social group—and argues that this particular linguistic construct is a key marker of extremist language. The paper employs three different cases to illustrate the theoretical contribution: Nazi propaganda, Rwandan genocidaires’ radio and IS’ messaging.