Language Of Fear Research Articles

Correlation of sounds between the self and the other

This research deals with the ideological thought among the narrator and the characters in the writer’s texts, Iraqi expatriate (Mohammed Habari) . In this research, we sought to reveal the ideological collision in presenting ideological visions, meaning that revealing the plurality and difference in opinions to reveal the hidden texts of a crisis reality in which the language of fear and death transcends. The search consists of two parts, The first is theoretical, in which it reviews the nature and repercussions of this interdependence, and the other is practical, in which I sought to analyze some texts that deal with this difference.

The Language of Fear in Media: A Case of COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak in Five Compounds of Lusaka City, Zambia

The Language of Fear in Media: A Case of COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak in Five Compounds of Lusaka City, Zambia

Without you: Uma análise da transposição para o português do conto de Del James

Este artigo discorre sobre a transposição do conto Without You do autor norte-americano Del James, um autor à margem na esfera literária, sendo seus maiores trabalhos contos de terror e seu livro, A linguagem do medo. A transposição teve como língua de partida o Inglês e a língua alvo a língua portuguesa, em especial, o português brasileiro. A obra analisada foi proveniente de uma transposição realizada por um grupo de fãs da banda norte-americana Guns N’ Roses chamado GNR Devotion Fan Club e para tal, não tiveram um mecenas e nem realizaram a tradução com fins lucrativos. As análises foram realizadas a partir das teorias de autores dos estudos da tradução como Itamar Even-Zohar (2013), Andre Lefevere (2007) e Susan Bassnet (2003). Este artigo teve como objetivo verificar se a transposição preserva as características de estilo de Del James, se ela pode ser considerada uma tradução adequada e quais outras características é possível perceber na adaptação

Types of fear, ethics and aesthetics of terror, and the politics of emotions in The Album of Female Prisoners by Milutin A. Popovic

Eventhough the number of neurosience studies has grown from the late 20th century, the topic of fear in Serbian literature of the second half of the 19th century has rarely been separately researched. For this analisys, the author has chosen an unusual book in which, unlikely to Serbian novels of the time, fear was often described. It is the first book of the stories about Serbian female convicts of the 19th century The Album of the Women?s Ward of Prison in Pozarevac with Statistics (1898) by Milutin A. Popovic. Contrary to some Serbian, Swedish (1861) and American (1886) albuma of the time, Popovic narrated crimes and sometimes wrote confessions derived directly from the female prisoners. The purpose of this paper is to analyse fear, conditioned by time and space, its vocal, facial and body expressions, as well as personal reactions. In this interdisciplanary research the author has integrated perspectives and methods from the Theory of Literature and Affective Narratology, Comparative Literature, History of Serbian Society and Literature, Psychology, Political Psychology, Philosophy and to some extent Linguistics (Cognitive Semantics). It is argued that the author's insistence on truth was the part of terrorethics, of causing fear and shock. It establishes the triumph of truth without beautifying, calling for sensibility, compassion and responsibility, in order to improve society. The results of the investigation show that in Album fear is presented as a complex emotion. It appears as an act of defense, but also as a form of manipulation. Fear is often connected to women and it turned to courage. The fear of death and the fear of a dead human body are the most frequently described fears. The author also described gender-specific fear of pregnancy, abortion, and rape. The Album breaks stereotypes of the past Serbian society and reveals different cases of women?s political resistance and sexual freedom. In the Album, fear is rarely vocally expressed, rather it manifests through different bodily symptoms, their intensity and spectrum. In describing one of the cruelest crimes, the author included humor as a mean of defense and fear control. Emotional geography reveals a paradox: a home is a place of terror and life threat, while a prison emerges as an area of joy and security. Moreover, the book describes two key generators of the politics of emotions. One is made by the systematic violence of a patriarcharchal society toward women, and the other one by inadequate institutions which ignore serious social problems. The language of fear, shock, horror, provocation and perversion and the aesthetics of the genre is interpreted as a part of the author's efforts for readers to feel terror of psycho-physiological mechanisms of pain, and to make new connections with the society and its culture. The creation of a complex and multimedia genre of the album is in accordance with the author's multuple efforts to deconstruct the layers of real life and its different dangers, calling for counteractions, and showing the tragic link between inhumane and unordered society.

Fake news: Acceptance by demographics and culture on social media

ABSTRACTFake news has trumped up attention across cultures from the United States Elections to the Arab Spring. While political marketers have long used the language of fear and persuasion in their messaging, social media has intensified its impact. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of demographics and culture on the spread of fake news via social media. Based on a quantitative study, it finds that culture has the most significant impact on the spread of fake news. Results shows that age and not gender or education has a greater influence on the acceptance of fake news in particular cultures.

A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Nurses' Experiences of Truth Telling and Harms in Cancer Care in Qatar.

Telling the truth to cancer patients remains under debate in the Middle East, where concealment about diagnosis and prognosis occurs in some cases. Concealment results in challenges for nurses providing care. The aim of this study was to understand nurses' lived experiences of caring for cancer patients whose cancer diagnosis or prognosis has been withheld from them. Eight nurses from the national cancer center in Qatar were interviewed. The transcripts of the interview texts were interpreted using Gadamer's hermeneutic approach. The interpretations are shaped by understandings of harm. Nurses assessed harm using empathy. Nurses' empathy was permeated with fears that accompany a cancer diagnosis; the language of cancer is interpreted as a language of fear. It is ideas about harms and evoking patients' fear that generates nurses' experiences of complexity, ambiguity, and conflicting feelings regarding truth telling and concealment. The meanings nurses drew from their experiences rested on understandings about love, vulnerability, and opportunities to atone. We interpret nurses' descriptions of being enmeshed in a web of lies through which multidimensional harms are experienced. The complexities of nurses' experiences go well beyond the universal concepts of informed consent and patients' rights. Nurses' experiences reveal insights that likely resonate across other jurisdictions in the Arabic Gulf and other Eastern cultures, where nurses deal with these sensitive issues case by case. Leaders and health professionals in cancer care in such cultures must establish more nuanced and transparent interdisciplinary approaches to respond to the complexities of truth telling in cancer care.

Book review: Piotr Cap, The Language of Fear: Communicating Threat in Public Discourse

Book review: Piotr Cap, <i>The Language of Fear: Communicating Threat in Public Discourse</i>

From ‘cultural unbelonging’ to ‘terrorist risk’: communicating threat in the Polish anti-immigration discourse

ABSTRACTThe present paper analyses the anti-immigration discourse in Poland in terms of Proximization Theory (PT). PT [Cap, P. (2008). Towards the proximization model of the analysis of legitimization in political discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, 40, 17–41; Cap, P. (2010). Axiological aspects of proximization. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 392–407; Cap, P. (2013). Proximization: The pragmatics of symbolic distance crossing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; Cap, P. (2017). The language of fear: Communicating threat in public discourse. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; among others] is a cognitive-critical model that accounts for the ways in which the discursive construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the political sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. It reveals how top public actors construe closeness of an external threat, to claim leadership and solicit legitimization of preventive measures to offset the effects of the threat. The present paper applies PT in the domain of state political discourse in today’s Poland, outlining strategies whereby anti-immigration stance and policies are legitimized by discursively constructed fear appeals and other coercion patterns. It demonstrates how the ‘emerging’, ‘growing’, ‘gathering’ threats – physical as well as ideological – are construed by the Polish right-wing government, who thus claim their right to oppose EU immigration agreements and pursue strict anti-immigration measures.

The language of fear: Communicating threat in public discourse

The language of fear: Communicating threat in public discourse

This Is Not a Test

When it comes to the public dissemination of tornado warnings, past research would suggest that the amount of fearful language used by meteorologists and the time spent presenting life-saving information would have an impact on the public’s willingness to heed such warnings. This research experiment uses the extended parallel process model to explore the role of fear and group influence in effective tornado warning message persuasion. Participants who thought they were giving their feedback regarding a live television program were exposed to a fake tornado warning while in a group setting. A local television meteorologist recorded the warning to help ensure the participants thought they were viewing live television. Results indicated that a fear-inducing tornado warning, even when coupled with life-saving information, could not overcome the influence of group inhibition.

Feeding the Beast: Nourishing Nativist Appeals in Sweden and in Denmark

Sweden and Denmark share a similar socio-political structure, yet these two countries demonstrate two distinct discourses on immigration. This article focuses on the tone of the debate in Denmark and Sweden concerning immigration and national identity. If the tone of debate is shaped by a language of fear, we argue, this predisposes people to vote for anti-immigration parties. Our analysis highlights the position of anti-immigration parties; hence, the Sweden Democrats (SD) in Sweden and the Danish People’s Party (DPP) in Denmark. We use frame analysis to detect recurrent frames in the media debate concerning the SD and the DPP in the political competition over votes. Our material concentrates on the run-up to the European Parliamentary (EP) elections of 2004 and 2009, in total 573 articles in ten major Danish and Swedish newspapers. We show that the harsh tone of the debate and the negative dialogue risks leading to the construction of beasts that are impossible to negotiate with. In the Swedish political debate, the SD is highly stigmatized as the beast (the extreme other) in Swedish politics and this stigma is used by the SD in the mobilization of votes. In Denmark the religion of Islam as such plays a similar role and provides the DPP with an identity. We conclude that we are confronted with a two-faced beast that feeds on perceptions of the people as ultimately afraid of what are not recognized as native goods.

The construction of race and crime in Canadian print media: A 30-year analysis

To address whether there is a systematic racial bias in the language used to describe offenders and victims in Canadian print media, content analysis was conducted in four Canadian local newspapers. Using 12 sub-themes relating to fear and marginalization, the results of the 1190 sampled crime articles indicate that white offenders were disproportionately criminalized and dehumanized. In addition, articles describe crimes against white victims with significantly more fearful language, while visible minority victims were blamed for their own victimization. The results reflect a bias mainly through explanations for crime rather than in what newspapers report about crime and offenders. The racialization of offender and victims creates a powerful hierarchal treatment between those who are and are not ‘meant’ to have their lives impacted by crime and for whom being a victim of crime is tragic.

Nomarchy: On the Rule of Law and Authority in Giorgio Agamben and Aristotle

This article suggests that the current rise of the rule of law as a mobilising political principle may be understood as a response to contemporary anxiety about authority. It also argues that the recent increase in states of emergency is complemented by an expansive legalism. First, the paper reviews Giorgio Agamben's description of legal expansion through states of emergency (or ‘exception’) dictated by a language of fear. Second, in a philological inquiry, it accompanies the ‘founding father’ of the rule of law, Aristotle, in his discussion of law's sovereignty. The core question posed by Aristotle— regarding the inquiry into the ideal relationship between law and its administration—remains unresolved in his Politics. Finally, the analysis is grounded in judicial responses to states of emergency. In recent case law, the courts both facilitate the production of emergency regimes and provide a locus for contestation of their parameters.

Is Literacy Lagging?

SEVERAL reports lately have implied that students are not ready for college and that colleges are going downhill in part because they are more interested in money and prestige than in the quality and preparation of their students. The tribulations of colleges have been the subject of a PBS special by John Merrow, Declining by Degrees, and one of his podcasts, Slipping Behind. But few days go by without a report on the tremendous debt that students incur in trying to get a college diploma and the negative impact that this burden has on their university careers--less focus on academics, more hours devoted to working at a job, and so more years to get to the diploma and an increased probability of never getting one at all. In the November column, I discussed research indicating that the bachelor's degree was in danger of becoming a rich-kidsonly birthright. Another report claiming that high schools don't prepare students well comes from the ACT. Reading Between the Lines: What the ACT Reveals About College Readiness in Reading is written in the language of fear and gives its findings a negative spin. Although the overall report is titled neutrally, its first chapter is headed Our Students Are not Ready for College and Workplace Reading. As an example of the negative emphasis, consider that the ACT report presents a pie chart with the legend More than Two-Thirds of New Jobs Require Some Postsecondary Education. The figure is 67%. The chart could just as well have been labeled More than Two-Thirds of New Jobs Do Not Require a College Degree. Sixty-nine percent fit that statement. The report claims, It is recognized today that the knowledge and skills needed for college are equivalent to those needed in the workplace. The only citations for this contention are a publication of the American Diploma Project, whose integrity I question (alas, many citations in the report are also from individuals and organizations that fall into this category), and an essay by Patte Barth (then with the Education Trust, now with the National School Boards Association) in which she contends, with no real data, that the two are converging. However, in an article last October, New York Times reporter Louis Uchitelle found that a substantial proportion of people holding certain jobs that do not require college e.g., office clerks, derrick operators, and theater ushers) nevertheless have bachelor's degrees. Conversely, Uchitelle quotes MIT economist David Autor: There has been enormous demand for low-skilled workers. Uchitelle also reports that since 2000 the weekly pay of workers with a high school education has risen at four times the rate of those with college degrees. Uchitelle concluded, Clearly there are more college graduates than unfilled jobs requiring their credentials. As a consequence of the surplus, some employers have upgraded their job requirements. Actually, reading in the workplace is apt to be harder than assigned reading in college. The memos and directives one gets to read on the job are often unreadable, while the materials one encounters in literature classes are not. (Ninth-graders slogging through Silas Marner might not agree.) The principal datum in the ACT report is a trend line for ACT's reading showing that readiness for college-level reading is at its lowest point in more than a decade. Only 51% score high enough to meet the Benchmark, which is the equivalent of a score of 21 on the ACT reading test. A comparison of students' college grades and their scores on the ACT test finds that reaching the Benchmark gives a student a 50% chance of making a B or better and a 75% chance of making a C or better in a credit-bearing college course such as U.S. history or psychology. ACT's own data, though, showed that 68% of those who failed to make the Benchmark still received a C or better in psychology, while 64% attained a C or better in U. …