Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero

University of Granada | UGR · Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana

This article focuses on the potential of memes as apparently innocuous communicative digital tools to spread gendered Islamophobia. Following Segev et al.'s (2015) theories of meme families, we studied a corpus of 100 memes retrieved from popular internet meme sites from 2017 to 2021. We applied the principles of multimodal discourse analysis to an...

Since the proclamation of the Caliphate in 2014, an unprecedented number of women have fled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS). This fact, a matter of national security for many countries, has spotlighted the two major official propaganda magazines of the organisation, Dabiq and Rumiyah , since both publications are considered potential recrui...

During 1983–2009, Sri Lanka lived a bloody civil war that left more than 100,000 casualties. Far from being peaceful, the long-awaited post-war phase has witnessed several periodic episodes of violence between some of the different ethnoreligious groups in the island. This chapter analyses the comments made on YouTube videos on the attacks on Sri L...

Este artículo plantea una propuesta educativa que reivindica la inclusión del graffiti1 como objeto de estudio de una asignatura de español para extranjeros. Además de su infravalorado potencial desde una perspectiva meramente lingüística (como texto escrito), el graffiti puede resultar, sobre todo, una magnífica herramienta pedagógica que promueva...

Graffiti emerge in the cities as powerful tools of communication but also as a spontaneous expression of social criticism. Their complex polyhedral nature has been studied from multiple angles ranging from Sociology, Urban Planning, Criminology, Linguistics or Art Criticism but few studies have adopted a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, pay...

In the political area, the year 2018 will be written in the history of Spain as the year that welcomed a new president of the government, Pedro Sánchez Castejón, after the motion of no confidence that ousted Mariano Rajoy. However, in relation to Islamophobia, the most relevant fact was the burst on the political scene of VOX, a far-right party bor...

This chapter examines the presence of Islamophobia in the context of Ireland and Northern Ireland, by analysing the cyber-discourse representation of Muslim communities in connection with the two most practised religions, Catholicism and Protestantism. The study is based on the analysis of a main corpus made up of 3250 tweets retrieved from Twitter...

This chapter examines the presence of Islamophobia in the context of Ireland and Northern Ireland, by analysing the cyber-discourse representation of Muslim communities in connection with the two most practised religions, Catholicism and Protestantism. The study is based on the analysis of a main corpus made up of 3250 tweets retrieved from Twitter...

Report funded by the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka together with USAID on the construction of national identity through online discourse in post-January 2015 Sri Lanka.

Muslims have been the target of discriminatory attitudes – especially after 9/11 – by certain sectors of society, leading to what is known as ‘Islamophobia’. This exclusionary tendency sees its most common manifestation in hate speech. Hate speech is multifaceted: it can attribute false assumptions to a religion, ascribe despicable facts to a relig...

At the heart of the ditransitive construction, the verb give lies as the prototypical ditransitive verb as it has been pointed out by authors such as Newman (1993, 1996, 2005) or Goldberg (1995). Usually the verb give is semantically described as the physical act of passing an entity (direct object) from one participant (subject) to another one (in...