"Facts, not Fear": Islamophobia, Coronaphobia and the Language of Fear

Colloquium Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.7359/097-2023-delm
Marisa Della Gatta
{"title":"\"Facts, not Fear\": Islamophobia, Coronaphobia and the Language of Fear","authors":"Marisa Della Gatta","doi":"10.7359/097-2023-delm","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The world is currently living in a time in which crises are at the doorstep. The primary scope of this study is to shed some light on the role of fear and extremist discourses during security threats. Islamist terrorism and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic are frames for evaluating the responses of Islamophobia and Coronaphobia. The use of fear in politics has been convincingly linked by Wodak (2021) with extreme rhetoric and the refusal to conform to any value-normative model or stereotype. This article argues that extreme and divisive discourses surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic have not substituted fears of “otherness” (van Dijk 2009), but rather have created a new dimension of fearing the unknown. Looking for communalities between Coronaphobic and Islamophobic discourses, this study undertakes a corpus-based discourse analysis (Baker 2006; Gee 2011) of online reports and instances of fear and extremist speech on traditional and social media, Facebook and Twitter (Zappavigna 2012). First, this article provides a background of representations of hateful and fearful rhetoric with the aim of evaluating differences and similarities in online reports, speeches, press releases and social media posts. A diachronic analysis of a self-compiled collection of texts containing an extremist and/or phobic stance, with a special focus on Australia, follows. The study can foster the understanding of the interplay between fear and insecurity.","PeriodicalId":34863,"journal":{"name":"Colloquium","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Colloquium","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7359/097-2023-delm","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

The world is currently living in a time in which crises are at the doorstep. The primary scope of this study is to shed some light on the role of fear and extremist discourses during security threats. Islamist terrorism and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic are frames for evaluating the responses of Islamophobia and Coronaphobia. The use of fear in politics has been convincingly linked by Wodak (2021) with extreme rhetoric and the refusal to conform to any value-normative model or stereotype. This article argues that extreme and divisive discourses surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic have not substituted fears of “otherness” (van Dijk 2009), but rather have created a new dimension of fearing the unknown. Looking for communalities between Coronaphobic and Islamophobic discourses, this study undertakes a corpus-based discourse analysis (Baker 2006; Gee 2011) of online reports and instances of fear and extremist speech on traditional and social media, Facebook and Twitter (Zappavigna 2012). First, this article provides a background of representations of hateful and fearful rhetoric with the aim of evaluating differences and similarities in online reports, speeches, press releases and social media posts. A diachronic analysis of a self-compiled collection of texts containing an extremist and/or phobic stance, with a special focus on Australia, follows. The study can foster the understanding of the interplay between fear and insecurity.
查看原文
分享 分享
微信好友 朋友圈 QQ好友 复制链接
本刊更多论文
“事实,而不是恐惧”:伊斯兰恐惧症,冠状病毒恐惧症和恐惧的语言
目前,世界正生活在一个危机近在咫尺的时代。本研究的主要范围是阐明恐惧和极端主义话语在安全威胁中的作用。伊斯兰恐怖主义和Covid-19大流行的爆发是评估伊斯兰恐惧症和冠状病毒恐惧症反应的框架。Wodak(2021)令人信服地将恐惧在政治中的使用与极端修辞和拒绝遵守任何价值规范模型或刻板印象联系在一起。本文认为,围绕Covid-19大流行的极端和分裂言论并没有取代对“他者”的恐惧(van Dijk 2009),而是创造了对未知的恐惧的新维度。为了寻找冠状恐惧症和伊斯兰恐惧症话语之间的共性,本研究进行了基于语料库的话语分析(Baker 2006;(Gee 2011)传统媒体和社交媒体,Facebook和Twitter上的恐惧和极端主义言论的在线报告和实例(Zappavigna 2012)。首先,本文提供了仇恨和恐惧言论表达的背景,目的是评估网络报道、演讲、新闻稿和社交媒体帖子的异同。以下是对包含极端主义和/或恐怖主义立场的自编文本集的历时分析,特别关注澳大利亚。这项研究可以促进对恐惧和不安全感之间相互作用的理解。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 去求助
来源期刊
自引率
0.00%
发文量
0
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊最新文献
Interview to Stanley Johnson Le iniziative internazionali e dell'UE rispetto ai crimini compiuti nella guerra in Ucraina La Conferenza sul futuro dell'Europa: le prospettive di riforma dell'Unione europea secondo i cittadini e la loro (difficile) attuazione The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK: An Economy on the Edge La risposta dell'Unione europea all'invasione dell'Ucraina tra condanna della condotta russa e solidarietà alla popolazione ucraina
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
已复制链接
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
×
扫码分享
扫码分享
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1