Katie J. Patterson

• PhD
• Ayudante Doctora at University of Granada

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 psyc...

This chapter presents an investigation into the evidence of fixed language use within jihadist magazines and the extent to which these fixed patterns reflect specific power relations within the text community. The research presents the hypothesis that the writers of articles in jihadist magazines have become primed to employ the words and sets of w...

The ideological discourse of Jihadist groups like Al Qaeda or Islamic State is largely built on the use of persuasive techniques which act as instruments for radicalisation and recruitment, and more generally, “convince the audience of the veracity of the doctrine presented” ( Adam 2017 : 5). This article explores the use of metaphor as an importan...

This paper explores how metaphors are employed in jihadist magazines to promote a dichotomist worldview of ‘us’ versus ‘them’, ‘good’ versus ‘bad’, ‘east’ versus ‘west’ and ‘right’ versus ‘wrong’. It argues that juxtapositions in both language and thought help writers to reaffirm and/or challenge certain paradigms. The approach uses critical metaph...

Lexical priming is a linguistic theory which seeks to relate corpus‐linguistic concepts such as collocation and colligation to the experimental findings of psycholinguists interested in the retardation and acceleration of word association. In one such set of experiments informants are given a word or image (referred to as a prime) and then a target...

The ideological discourse of jihadist groups depends on their use of persuasive techniques as instruments for recruitment, radicalisation and more generally “to convince the audience of the veracity of the doctrine presented through it” [1]. The language choices therefore play a crucial role in reflecting their social relationships, motivations and...

Combining the approaches of Systemic Functional Grammar and Corpus Linguistics, the aim of this investigation is to provide a transitivity analysis of metaphor clusters within collected works by Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. This research tries to determine, using metaphorical ins-tances of head and thought, what types of processes are used for...

This book introduces a unique methodology to the study of metaphor, integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language. The volume questions the reliability of attempts to identify metaphor based on dichotomy and, drawing on data from a corpus of...

Este artículo discute cómo la teoría de lexical priming puede influenciar y mejorar nuestro acercamiento a cómo entendemos y por lo tanto enseñamos la metáfora. Se muestra cómo las metáforas son omnipresentes en el lenguaje cotidiano. Su función es comunicar nuestros pensamientos e ideas para facilitar su comprensión a una comunidad dada o en deter...

This paper explores the ways in which language users make sense of metaphoricity when manifest in a variety of ways within the language. In order to do this, the research provides an analysis of the lexical characteristics of a set of keywords in a nineteenth century corpus (grew, cultivate, flame) when used in potentially, but not clearly identifi...

Published in 2005, Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming – A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. In the ten years that have passed, the theory has since gained traction in the field of corpus-linguistics. This volume brings together some of the most important contri...

This article explores the ways in which language users make sense of metaphoricity when manifest in a variety of ways within the language. The research provides an analysis of the lexical characteristics of a single item (grew) when used in potentially, but not clearly identified, metaphoric contexts. The analysis focuses on flexible patterns of me...

corpus linguistics

This paper investigates the limitations of the umbrella-term ‘metaphor’, and specifically, its ineffectiveness at distinguishing between the various linguistic traits that characterise metaphoricity. The research uses corpus data in order to explore some of the types of lexical behaviour evident in metaphoric language. It is argued that Hoey’s [200...

metaphor, corpus linguistics, lexis

In recent research, metaphor is increasingly confronted in terms of a cline rather than a dichotomy. Yet the decision of whether a word or phrase is metaphoric is not as straightforward as a one-level cline suggests. The notion of 'metaphoric meaning' has further reaching implications on our language understanding and use than is commonly discussed...

This paper addresses the issues with current systems of categorisation and measurement of linguistic metaphoricity, which have coloured most research into the area to-date. The paper discusses the role of metaphor as a form of creative language and a deviation from more linguistic norms and conventionalities. Two current theories are discussed as p...

Hoey’s theory of Lexical Priming (2005) presents a usage-based account for both the psychological motivation behind our understanding of language and our ability to use language fluently to communicate within a given context. Presently, the theory accounts for both spoken and written language within particular domains. This research aims to present...

corpus linguistics, metaphor