none 10.1075/bct.93.06eva John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 94024303 2617396 1419073 202507021743000026 10.1075 2025-07-02T11:42:20Z 2017-11-03T12:22:37Z 0 1874-0081 10.1075/bct https://benjamins.com/ catalog/bct Monika Kopytowska University of Łódź https://ror.org/05cq64r17 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1065-7044 This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contemporary public discourses. The authors venture into an array of socio-political contexts and public spaces, providing a compelling overview of similarities and divergences, continuities and discontinuities, outward hatred and the “politics of denial”, the use of collective symbols and construction of individual identities. Multiple genres are taken under scrutiny, including blogs, forums, internet websites and newspaper coverage, political speeches and debates, news reports and broadcast interactions, with a view to capturing the themes and pragma-rhetorical strategies within texts abundant with radical and hateful messages. In addition to examining discourse dynamics and the underlying logic of such texts, the contributors to this monograph explore the ideological motivations and the consequences they might have for social actions on both an individual and collective level. Highly relevant in the contemporary world, divided by conflicts, power and resource struggles, right-wing extremism, and crusades against the imaginary Other, the book presents state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research that should be of interest to specialists in pragmatics, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, as well as media and communication studies. Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 3:1 (2015). 93 11 23 2017 11 3 2017 9789027242815 9789027264985 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/bct.93 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027264985 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027264985.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/bct.93/html Matthew Evans Simone Schuller The radicalisation of the May 2013 Woolwich attack in British press reportage This chapter uses critical stylistics to analyse the British press’s use of the term “terrorism” in their reporting of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby outside the military barracks in Woolwich, London on 22nd May 2013. It considers academic definitions of “terrorism” and compares these to the use of the term in newspaper reports on the attack. The authors seek to understand how the Woolwich attack is fit into a complex and contested concept such as terrorism. A close reading of a small corpus of national newspaper articles was used to identify common themes in the way the incident is portrayed, with critical stylistic analysis being applied to investigate how the term “terrorism” is used in context. The study highlights how the application of the “terrorism” label is justified within the articles despite the scarcity of information regarding the attack and persons involved at the time of their publication. 11 23 2017 11 3 2017 171 192 10.1075/bct.93.06eva https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.93.06eva https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/bct.93.06eva/html