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5 - The Out-group
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2021
Summary
This chapter acts as a counter-point to the previous one, in that it also deals with how social actors are represented, but this time we look at those who are viewed as part of the out-group as opposed to the in-group, considering how the in-group use language to carry out ‘othering’ of the out-group. We examine how strategies of collectivisation, stereotyping, dehumanisation and separation are linguistically realised by examining the following keywords: kufr, disbelief, kuffar, disbeliever, America and evil.
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- The Language of Violent Jihad , pp. 106 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021