236 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book revisits social-psychological theories of dehumanization and Albert Bandura’s theory of moral disengagement through the lens of discourse analysis, offering a new framework for the linguistic analysis of dehumanization.
The volume foregrounds the importance of integrating insights into the psychological and social mechanisms of moral disengagement with analyses of linguistic... Read more
1. Defining dehumanization 2. Linguistic strategies and techniques of dehumanization 3. Dehumanization in news media discourse in times of war 4. Hate speech and the new media 5. Dehumanization in medical discourse 6. Dehumanization in legal discourse 7. Delegitimization and legitimization of power in political discourse Conclusions
Biography
Małgorzata Waśniewska is a discourse analyst and cognitive linguist working as an Assistant Professor at SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland.
