Emily Powell

The Language of Mass Shooter Manifestos

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Pre-Crime Narratives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together scholarship from corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, and criminology, this book offers a nuanced exploration of moral agency in the pre-crime narratives of offenders written before they commit crimes.This book will be of interest to scholars in forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, stylistics, and criminology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032639956
• ISBN-10: 1032639954
• Artikelnr.: 72009265

Autorenporträt

Emily Powell is Head of the Centre for International English at the University of South Wales, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Background: Mass shooter manifestos, identity and the language of moral
agency
3. Constructing and analysing the corpus
4. Linguistic Repackaging of Agency
5. Sharing agency with past and future attackers
6. Virtual agency and self-labelling
7. A taxonomy of moral agency
8. Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index