{"title":"Verbal horror and slaughterhouse imagery in media representation of herdsmen violence","authors":"E. Igwebuike","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00070.igw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00070.igw","url":null,"abstract":"Nigerian media reports on herdsmen’s violence present dehumanised images of a slaughterhouse in which farmers are represented as animals being slaughtered by herders. Using a critical discourse analysis and appraisal framework, with a focus on the systems of attitude and graduation, this paper critically examines media representation of herdsmen’s violence as “butchering” in the form of carnism. Analysis reveals that carnist representation is reinforced through death-dealing socio-cognitive labelling, attitudinal lexicalisation and strands of carnism. Also, using attitude and graduation resources, a one-directional and horrific image is painted. The study concludes that the creation as well as consumption of such scary news cultivates cognitive prejudices and stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133376563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“We were cocked & loaded to retaliate”","authors":"Mohammad Makki, A. Ross","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00069.mak","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00069.mak","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The diplomatic relationship between the USA and Iran has long been fraught and is characterised by various conflicts and the implementation of economic sanctions. It can be argued that the relationship became even more hostile after Donald Trump was elected president of the US. Trump’s sentiments towards Iran were made public through his behavior on Twitter, both before and after he took over the Presidency. These sentiments have been a mix of negative and sometimes positive views and opinions. This study uses a corpus of Trump’s tweets that explicitly mention ‘Iran’ as the basis of a linguistic analysis and applies to it the analytical framework of appraisal from Systemic Functional Linguistics. More specifically, this study focuses on how he established an Us vs. Them dichotomy. While the analysis shows that Iran has been generally portrayed negatively by Trump, there were several tweets where the Iranian government was appraised positively, too. More interestingly, in those tweets, he seemed to target Obama and democrats and represent them negatively while Iran was assessed in positive terms.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123007096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thematic issue: New perspectives on conflict","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/jlac.9.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.9.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126811130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of pumpkin spice lattes and hamplanets","authors":"Julia Signorelli","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00067.sig","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00067.sig","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present study establishes what comprises the genre of venting as opposed to\u0000 ranting and how venting functions within the Reddit community Fat People Stories. In this subreddit, users\u0000 compose either real or fictional narratives describing encounters with people of size who are perceived to exhibit rude behavior.\u0000 Given the sensitive nature of these discussions, they are often fraught with negative emotional expression, and individuals seek a\u0000 variety of outlets to release these emotions and find commiseration and diversion. An analytical corpus of 45,867 words across ten\u0000 posts and corresponding comment sections was gathered and analyzed using Askehave and\u0000 Nielsen’s (2005) two-dimensional genre model and supplemented with discourse analysis of the individual texts. As the\u0000 study explores how venting unfolds in a digitally mediated environment, insights gained can have implications for how humans sort\u0000 through negative emotions in face-to-face communication, and, more specifically, for discourse surrounding public health and body\u0000 weight.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114897796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence against women in politics","authors":"Zainab B. Alam","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00052.ala","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00052.ala","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper explores the protest claims of Pakistani women against the everyday oppression of traditional gender\u0000 roles and the complex backlash they provoke as an instance of violence against women in politics. Taking the annual Aurat\u0000 March (Women’s March) as a focal point, I analyze the provocative placards and slogans that have gone viral in both\u0000 traditional and digital media and investigate the misogynistic counter attacks launched by conservatives, men’s rights advocates,\u0000 and anti-feminists. Contesting narrow definitions of the political in mainstream research, I argue that Aurat\u0000 March protesters and activists are women in politics and that counter-discourses, designed to\u0000 delegitimize the protest and the women’s issues it represents, constitute a mode of discursive violence that should be included in\u0000 scholarly and activist discussions of violence against women in politics.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129958460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are gold hoop earrings and a dab of red lipstick enough to get even Democrats on the offensive?","authors":"M. Rasulo","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00057.ras","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00057.ras","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 According to news media outlets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the newly-elected Democratic representative from\u0000 New York, has stirred up conflicting feelings among Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, attracting criticism, mockery and\u0000 disapproval from both parties. The overarching aim of this study is to explore the extent to which these attitudes are acts of\u0000 verbal aggression often dissimulated as patronizing warnings or manifestations of an opinion (Ramirez and Andreu 2003; Wodak 2015). In particular, by analyzing a corpus\u0000 of headlines regarding AOC’s political persona and activism collected from six major conservative and liberal newspapers\u0000 circulating in the US, the study aims to detect linguistic markers associated with aggression and verify their level of toxicity\u0000 (Musolff 2012). To this purpose, both quantitative and qualitative methodological\u0000 approaches are used with particular reference to Corpus Linguistics (Baker et al. 2008;\u0000 Kilgariff et al. 2014) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl and Wodak 2001, 2016). Findings show that biased\u0000 mediatized political discourse can influence attitudes toward aggressive speech behavior, and, therefore, intensify the devious\u0000 nature of aggressive acts.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126972580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourses of aggression in Greek digitally-mediated communication","authors":"Ourania Hatzidaki, Ioannis E. Saridakis","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00043.edi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00043.edi","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124480628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“An equal right to comment”","authors":"Ourania Hatzidaki","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00037.hat","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00037.hat","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper analyses a snapshot of a conflictive Greek YouTube polylogue dealing with the issue of public online\u0000 female nudity and the norms pertaining to both the act itself and its verbal critique. The said polylogue contains a markedly high\u0000 proportion of lay (im)politeness/(in)appropriateness evaluations (Locher and Watts\u0000 2005). By quantifying and critically analyzing key lexical impoliteness (Culpeper\u0000 2011) and metapragmatic markers contained in the evaluations, I identify the ways in which the norms of online verbal\u0000 behaviour are discursively negotiated amongst the polylogue participants, focusing especially on the arguments and justifications\u0000 underlying the suggested norms. It is found that, firstly, the notions of (im)politeness/(in)appropriateness emerge as open to\u0000 fierce, yet heavily argument-supported discursive dispute; secondly, sexualized slang functions both as an object of critique and\u0000 as an extremely versatile rhetorical instrument serving metapragmatic argumentation; and, thirdly, online\u0000 (im)politeness/(in)appropriateness is construed not as a superficial matter of netiquette, but as a deeply ethical and\u0000 political-ideological controversy, especially regarding speech liberty and political correctness.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128181431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Like a donkey carrying books’","authors":"Muhammad A. Badarneh","doi":"10.1075/JLAC.00027.BAD","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLAC.00027.BAD","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to show how intertextuality is exploited as an impoliteness resource in online reader comments on the website of a London-based pan-Arab Arabic-language daily newspaper. Analysis of 140 reader responses containing impolite references shows that readers called upon and appropriated the language and imagery of impolite and culturally salient prior texts from four sources to perform impoliteness: traditional scriptures, historical texts, poetic texts, and popular proverbs. The use and reception of these impolite intertextualities rely on familiarity with the intertextual source in question. The creative recycling of privileged authoritative texts, use of metaphorical language, invoking of gender identity, and reproducing of particular ideologies played a pivotal role in performing this intertextual impoliteness. The perception of such intertextual impoliteness is crucially influenced by culture as a “general text” (Kristeva 1980) that adds to the complexity of impoliteness when analyzed within a culture-specific context.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123165073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#shutdownjnu vs #standwithjnu","authors":"Ritesh Kumar","doi":"10.1075/JLAC.00028.KUM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLAC.00028.KUM","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In February 2016, one of the premier Universities of higher education in India, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), suddenly came into the limelight for allegedly raising anti-India slogans at one of the protest cultural programmes in the campus. In this paper, I present a study of the co-emergence and spread of the two opposing hashtags in the context of the controversy – #shutdownjnu and #standwithjnu. The study is based on data collected from Twitter over a period of 2 years from February 2016 – February 2018. I present a quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of the emergence and use of these two hashtags on Twitter and understand these in terms of the process of enregisterment and how conflict (and consequently aggression) became normative and conventionalised in the context of these hashtags. I also take a comparative look at the enregisterment of the two hashtags and argue that despite similar conditions, enregisterment is not guaranteed.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121347945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}