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" More than Words: "
Ladd, Brian K.
Terry, J. Michael
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1107284
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TLpq2439290489
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| Main Entry
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Ladd, Brian K.
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Terry, J. Michael
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| Title & Author
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More than Words:\ Ladd, Brian K.Terry, J. Michael
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| College
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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2020
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2020
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M.A.
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113
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| Abstract
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In this thesis I will provide an exploratory study applying Multi-Dimensional analysis to the realm of Islamic State language. Systematic, observable variables that constitute IS communications can be identified through a built model. The idea is to make more of the type of information that a human analyst relies on available in the automated pre-processing and parsing phases, the types of information that they are looking for is something that a system like Bag-of-Words is missing. The corpus studied was drawn from the Islamic State newsletter al-naba’. I collected five issues from January 2020 – February 2020. From those issues the editorial sections were focused on specifically. Two paragraphs were chosen from each editorial at random. Each paragraph was translated and coded for sixteen linguistic features, including the presence or absence of religious or political nouns and verbs. I ran a correlation matrix as well as a Factor Analysis and qualitatively analyzed each for the communicative functions. The statistical analysis revealed that overall, the Islamic State uses significantly more political speech than religious. However, in longer sentences, political and religious speech is more likely to occur. The qualitative analysis found that in longer sentences, religious and political speech are in service to each other. There is a political aim to the sentence punctuated with a religious admonition statement to reinforce the political goal. I hypothesize that MDA can determine, via a seeded exploration method, a distinct IS register among the newsletters. This thesis does not fully realize this goal; however, it does provide support for the concept by identifying patterns that may very well help to determine an IS register.
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Islamic culture
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Linguistics
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Sociolinguistics
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