Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic
fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-style democracy. Yet very …

This article explores the language of violent jihad, focussing upon lexis encoding concepts
from Islam. Through the use of correlation statistics, this article demonstrates that the words …

This introductory chapter sets the media-historical and theoretical scene for the exploration
of the shifts toward image-centricity in contemporary multimodal practices posited in the …

Using corpus linguistics and qualitative, manual discourse analysis, this paper compares
English and French extremist texts to determine how messages in different languages draw …

How do violent jihadists use language to try to persuade people to carry out violent acts?
This book analyses over two million words of texts produced by violent jihadists to identify …

Apesar de não ser unânime a ideia de que a internet e as redes sociais têm um papel
importante na estruturação do terrorismo e no entendimento do mesmo nos dias de hoje …

This paper uses a multimodal mixed methods approach for exploring general
recontextualisation patterns of violent extremist images in online media. Specifically, the …

This paper reports on a study that is part of a project which aims to develop a multimodal
analytical approach for big data analytics, initially in the context of violent extremism. The …

This article proposes multimodal methodologies as a path to revitalising criticality in CTS. It
begins by assessing the strengths of existing scholarship on “terrorism”, whilst also noting …

This study takes a systemic functional multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis
and discussion of image and text relations in two sets of data. First, patterns of …