WINDSOR Leah

The language of radicalization: female internet recruitment to participation in ISIS activities/ Leah Windsor - 2020

This paper is a case study examining the words of one young Muslim woman, Aqsa Mahmood, who moved from her home in Scotland to join the ISIS fighters in Syria. Her Tumblr blog provides a linguistic, political, and ideological record of the process of her radicalization. To identify linguistic patterns in her blog posts that can help to develop and reveal a typology of the language of female radicalization.


ISLAMIC STATE -- ISIS
SOCIAL MEDIA -- TERRORISM
RADICALIZATION