Pseudonyms as carriers of contextualised threat in 19th-century Irish English threatening notices
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Abstract This paper explores functions of pseudonyms in written threatening communication from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective. It addresses the semantic domains present corpus 19th-century Irish English notices and their construction both cultural-contextualised threat threatener’s identity. We identify eight that are accessed recurrently order to create threat. Contributing notion involves menacing war, violence, darkness perdition directly, while also constructing certain persona for threatener highlights motivation, moral superiority, historical, local circumstantial expertise, physical mental aptitude. argue contribute deontic force by accessing cultural categories schemas as well conceptual metaphors metonymies. Finally, we suggest function post-positioned frame setters, providing lens through which entire notice must be interpreted.
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عنوان ژورنال: English World-wide
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1569-9730', '0172-8865']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00059.pet