Language as evidence
A discourse semantic and corpus linguistic approach to examining written terrorist threatening communication
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.24678Keywords:
forensic linguistics, violent extremist discourse, appraisal signature, evaluative textbites, affiliation, disaffiliation, threat text, incitement, criminology, morality of terrorismReferences
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