Manipulative and Recruitment Strategies in Boko Haram Terrorist Statements
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T1 - Manipulative and Recruitment Strategies in Boko Haram Terrorist Statements
AU - Osisanwo, Ayo
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/2/17
Y1 - 2024/2/17
N2 - This paper investigates the discursive strategies deployed by Boko Haram terrorists (BHTs) to manipulate targets to accept their ideologies. Drawing insights from the discursive strategies by Reisigl and Wodak in critical discourse analysis, 10 BH statements released between 2009 and 2021 were qualitatively and quantitatively analysed. This paper examines the discursive tools BHTs typically deploy to authenticate their activities and manipulate their target to win and invite them to their side. Examining BHT accounts using this approach is capable of building opposing accounts capable of reducing terrorism in Nigeria, and by implication, in Africa and the world over.
AB - This paper investigates the discursive strategies deployed by Boko Haram terrorists (BHTs) to manipulate targets to accept their ideologies. Drawing insights from the discursive strategies by Reisigl and Wodak in critical discourse analysis, 10 BH statements released between 2009 and 2021 were qualitatively and quantitatively analysed. This paper examines the discursive tools BHTs typically deploy to authenticate their activities and manipulate their target to win and invite them to their side. Examining BHT accounts using this approach is capable of building opposing accounts capable of reducing terrorism in Nigeria, and by implication, in Africa and the world over.
KW - Boko Haram terrorism
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - Discourse strategies
KW - manipulation
KW - recruitment
KW - English
KW - Literature studies
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U2 - 10.1177/00219096241228795
DO - 10.1177/00219096241228795
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85185682729
JO - Journal of Asian and African Studies
JF - Journal of Asian and African Studies
SN - 0021-9096
ER -