@article{ref1,
title="Pledging to harm: a linguistic appraisal analysis of judgment comparing realized and non-realized violent fantasies",
journal="Discourse and society",
year="2019",
author="Hurt, Marlon and Grant, Tim",
volume="30",
number="2",
pages="154-171",
abstract="Intent is a psychological quality that threat assessors view as a required step on a threatener's pathway to action. Recognizing the presence of intent in threatening language is therefore crucial to determining whether a threat is credible. Nevertheless, a 'lack of empirical guidance' (p. 326) is available concerning how violent intent is expressed linguistically. Using the subsystem of judgment in Appraisal analysis, this study compares realized with non-realized 'pledges to harm', revealing occasionally counterintuitive patterns of stancetaking by both author types - for example, that the non-realized texts are both prosodically more violent and more threatening, while the realized pledges are more ethically nuanced - which may begin to shed light on which attitudinal markers reliably correlate with an author's intention to do future harm.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0957-9265",
doi="10.1177/0957926518816195",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926518816195"
}