Imitation Is the Most Sincere Form of Mockery

Mock Jewish English in Online Extremist Communities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17823930
AutoresRachel McCullough (0000-0002-6942-6689, Old Dominion University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen11
Número2
Páginas229-261
Fecha de publicación2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-bja10041
OpenAlexW4389397892
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas27

This article examines the use of Mock Jewish English ( MJE ) among members of the modern far right as a means of perpetuating ideologies centered around antisemitic canards originating from the 19th and 20th centuries. In order to investigate MJE as an act of language crossing, I examine the 900+ million token Unicorn Riot subcorpus of the Corpus of Digital Extremism and Conspiracies (CoDEC). Following this analysis, I describe the linguistic features of MJE when it is used as ventriloquation, specifically the lexical and phonological features employed by the white supremacist parody advice show, Dear Rabbi . In my analysis, I find that these two strategies of MJE are used by members of the far right to spread antisemitic ideologies, further the semantic pejoration of Jewish lexical borrowings, and covertly affiliate themselves with one another in public spaces (via language crossing) or distance themselves from Jewishness (via ventriloquation)

Antisemitism · Hangul · Ideology · Judaism · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism