Surinderpal Kaur
List of John Benjamins publications in which Surinderpal Kaur is involved.
Articles
2025 Moral panic and (in)security: Hispanic and Latinx immigrants in the shadow of Trump and right-wing populism Journal of Language and Politics 24:4, pp. 616–649 | Article
This study examines Trump’s depiction of Hispanic and Latinx immigrants, highlighting his use of moral panic to activate fear and thereby deepen societal divisions within a broader right-wing populist agenda. Analyzing nearly half a million words from Trump’s tweets using corpus-assisted… read more
2024 A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse: The case of Dabiq: The case of Dabiq Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:2, pp. 263–288 | Article
Even after the demise of its territorial caliphate in 2019, ISIS persists as a potent threat, adapting to new technologies and maintaining its status as an active insurgency. Amidst the backdrop of the terror group’s demonstrated resilience, this paper examines its practice of (de)legitimation… read more
2023 A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments Journal of Language and Politics 22:6, pp. 894–917 | Article
To better understand QAnon’s anti-immigration rhetoric, the study conducted a meta-discursive analysis of one of the group’s active Telegram channels by drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. Specifically, engagement markers in their immigration-related discourse were analyzed to see… read more