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Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to new and social media. Using corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and a variety of different datasets ranging from print newspapers to online news, commentary and Twitter, the author argues that language ideologies in Canadian media have a bearing not only on the extent to which Canadian language policies are adopted, but also on the very way that Canadians understand themselves and their place in the nation. Dr Rachelle Vessey is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University (UK) and has published her work on language ideologies in Canadian media in a range of academic journals, including Multilingua, Corpora, Language and Politics, Discourse & Society, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses. .

Mass communications --- Stilistics --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Sociolinguistics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Linguistics --- sociale media --- tekstanalyse --- linguïstiek --- meertaligheid --- sociolinguïstiek --- Multilingualism. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Social media. --- Discourse analysis. --- Language and languages—Style. --- Corpora (Linguistics). --- Social Media. --- Discourse Analysis. --- Stylistics. --- Corpus Linguistics. --- Canada.

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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 and examine the linguistic strategies employed. Taking a mixed methods approach, the authors combine quantitative methods from corpus linguistics, which allows the identification of frequent words and phrases, alongside close reading of texts via discourse analysis. The analysis compares language use across three sets of texts: those which advocate violence, those which take a hostile but non-violent standpoint, and those which take a moderate perspective, identifying the different uses of language associated with different stages of radicalization. The book also discusses how strategies including use of Arabic, romanisation, formal English, quotation, metaphor, dehumanisation and collectivisation are used to create in- and out-groups and justify violence.

Terrorists --- Violence in language. --- Jihad. --- Language and languages --- Language. --- Language --- Political aspects. --- Holy war (Islam) --- Islamic holy war --- Jahad --- Jehad --- Muslim holy war --- War (Islamic law) --- Violent language --- Criminals --- Language and languages Political aspects --- Political aspects --- Violence in language --- Jihad