“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”

Benítez-Castro, Miguel-Ángel; Tenorio, Encarnación Hidalgo

doi:10.1075/ps.21029.ben

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“…This being so, we still need to understand the causes behind these processes and gain deeper awareness of what we are facing. As shown in Benítez-Castro and Hidalgo-Tenorio (2022), and Etaywe and Zappavigna (2022), this requires exploring in detail the attitudinal underpinnings of this phenomenon, because it is through our self-and other-construed stances that allegiance to in-groups and hostility to out-groups is conveyed and enacted. In recent years, terrorism researchers have moved away from a profilingbased understanding of radicalisation to focus on the pathways leading to radicalisation, thereby paying more attention to group factors and dynamics (Horgan 2008).…”

Section: Introduction 11 the Current Threat Of Terrorismmentioning

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They were not radical, even when they committed that

Benítez-Castro

Tenorio

Patterson

et al. 2023

JLAC

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Identity conflict and the loss of meaning experienced by some Muslim young people in Western countries are key factors behind fanaticism, leading some of them to find purpose in life within extremist groups (Adam-Troian et al. 2021; Moyano and González 2021). The narrative that emerges from the radicalisation process provides a rich source for psychologists and discourse analysts, exploring not only the ‘why’ and the ‘how’, but also issues stemming from self-perception and other-representation. Such conflict-based narratives materialise in individuals’ evaluative language patterns (Etaywe and Zappavigna 2022). In this paper, we conduct a close analysis of the discursive construction of emotion and opinion in a collection of semi-structured interviews with social workers or neighbours who knew the perpetrators of the 2017 terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. To do so, we use corpus-driven methodologies and a refined version of Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal framework (see Benítez-Castro and Hidalgo-Tenorio 2019). Our analysis aims to cast light on the social frictions that may have contributed to their endorsement of violence (Moyano et al. 2021).

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Section: Introduction 11 the Current Threat Of Terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%

They were not radical, even when they committed that

Benítez-Castro

Tenorio

Patterson

et al. 2023

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A review of interpersonal metafunction studies in systemic functional linguistics (2012–2022)

Cheng

2023

Journal of World Languages

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Substantial research has drawn upon the notion of interpersonal metafunction proposed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to approach the interpersonal meanings construed in different contexts. However, there is a lack of review on the recent research of this domain. The objective of this paper is to survey the patterns and trends of literature on interpersonal metafunction in SFL tradition and guide future research. This paper reviews 160 studies published from 2012 to 2022. Four themes emerge from the review: theoretical explorations, multilingual studies, discourse analysis, and language education. These contributions shed light on the applicability and flexibility of SFL as a theoretical tool across a wide range of genres and languages. The four streams of research are guided by the fundamental concepts of SFL and interrelated by the concept of context and the tenet of language as social semiotic. Future directions lie in theoretical model refinement, methodological developments, typological descriptions of interpersonal grammar, and the extension of application areas.

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An appraisal analysis of judgement values on a Chinese political web forum

Li,

Dreyfus,

Don

2024

Text &Amp; Talk

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This paper reports on an appraisal analysis of a representative sample of 32 posts, and associated comments, on a Chinese political web forum, which is a first attempt to critically apply the appraisal framework to this context. One of the key findings is that the Chinese contributors to this forum judged the behaviour of others by relying to a great extent on assumed references and cultural knowledge. This ‘insider’ knowledge, in particular the perceived social status of the target group, is realised using different kinds of appraisal resources, mostly of the invoked type, with some of these resources different to those commonly used by native English speakers in similar contexts. The use of such resources enabled contributors to express negative judgement of people they perceived to be in the elite, as well as towards other nation-states. In this paper, we identify status-sensitive linguistic resources that invoke attitudes in this context, and thus propose to split the appraisal category of judgement: social sanction: propriety into ethics-based propriety and social-hierarchy-based propriety. We discuss how these resources are deployed by the contributors to position others in ways that depend on both knowledge of cultural context and the online communicative context in which these interactions take place.

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“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”

Cited by 3 publications

References 71 publications

They were not radical, even when they committed that

They were not radical, even when they committed that

A review of interpersonal metafunction studies in systemic functional linguistics (2012–2022)

An appraisal analysis of judgement values on a Chinese political web forum

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