The Language of Mass Shooter Manifestos

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.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. 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