Words Are Weapons Inside ISIS’s Rhetoric of Terror

256 Pages·2017·1.179 MB·English

by  Philippe-Joseph Salazar (author),  Dorna Khazeni (translator)

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Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Translation by Dorna Khazeni
New Haven & London
Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of
Amasa Stone Mather of the Class of 1907, Yale College.
English translation copyright © 2017 by Yale University.
Originally pYublished as Paroles armées: Comprendre et combattre la propagande
ale terroriste. © Lemieux Éditeur, 2015.
Published byU arrangement with Patricia Pasqualini Literary Agency.
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For Erik Doxtader, who pointed out that ISIS is the doubling in capital
letters of the verb to be in the third person: ISIS, is, is, is, is . . .
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Contents
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“Terrorism,” Linguistic Subversion 40
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Digital Caliphate 56
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Strongspeak vs. Weakspeak 73
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The Jihadist Aesthetic 86
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Caliphal Feminism 99
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EPILOGUE
Paris, November 13, 2015: A Comprehensive Lesson
in Strategy 189
Notes 207
Index 233
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