TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Pledging to harm: a linguistic appraisal analysis of judgment comparing realized and non-realized violent fantasies
JO  - Discourse and society
A1  - Hurt, Marlon
A1  - Grant, Tim
SP  - 154
EP  - 171
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0957-9265
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926518816195
ID  - ref1
ER  -