1st Edition
The Language of Mass Shooter Manifestos A Corpus-Based Analysis of Pre-Crime Narratives
By Emily Powell
Copyright 2025
236 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
The volume seeks to complement existing literature in forensic linguistics, which often explore criminal narratives elicited after the crime with the benefit of hindsight, by examining texts written in the... Read more
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
Biography
Emily Powell is Head of the Centre for International English at the University of South Wales, UK.
