Language of Mass Shooter Manifestos - A Corpus-Based Analysis of Pre-Crime Narratives

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Powell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.03.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032639956
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263995-6
• No. of pages: 229
• Series: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Criminal or forensic psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics