Tanya Karoli Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 338785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanya Karoli Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanya Karoli |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN T K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8108-1110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mainstreaming violent extremism through language play in the Halle manifesto
In 2019, a perpetrator opened fire outside the local synagogue in Halle, Germany. Prior to the terrorist attack, he had posted several documents and links on social media, including a manifesto. Notably, these documents draw on participatory practices familiar to more mainstream participatory communities, while deemphasizing the ideological motivation of the attack. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining media studies with linguistics, t…
Decoding Terrorism
This Element is an interdisciplinary analysis of the language evidence produced before, during and following a lone-actor terrorism attack in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2019, resulting in two casualties. During his final preparations, the perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Stephan Balliet, announced his attack online and disseminated a targeted violence manifesto shortly before live-streaming his violent act. This post-hoc investigation introd…
Justifying threats
All verbal threats are phrased and communicated by a sender that may be represented within the threatening message in the form of first-person pronouns (1PPs). Seeking to understand the sender's self-representation in linguistic threats better, we have developed a coding scheme for what we term discourse functions in threatening messages and applied it to utterances containing a 1PP, extracted from a corpus of written, Danish threats. Unsurprisin…
Illicit Genres
This study takes a novel approach to the study of threatening communications by arguing that they can be characterized as a genre – a genre that generally carries strong connotations of intimidation, fear, aggression, power, and coercion. We combine the theoretical framework of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) with results from theoretical and empirical analyses of threats to arrive at a more comprehensive perspective of threats. Since threats do n…
Foregrounding of subordinate clauses by word order
In modern Danish, main clauses have the word order X>Verb>Adverb (i. e., V2) whereas subordinate clauses are generally characterized by the "subordinate clause" word order Subject>Adverb>Verb. Spoken Danish has a high frequency of "main clause" word order in subordinate clauses, however, and in the article we argue that this "Main Clause Phenomena" (cf. Aelbrecht et al. 2012) functions as a foregrounding device, signaling that the more important …
Introduction to special issue on Forensic Linguistics
This special issue of Nordic Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to the emerging field of forensic linguistics. There are competing definitions and delimitations of this term but here we will use it to refer to the investigation and elucidation of language evidence in a legal context. This includes the scrutiny of language data from different stages of the legal process, ranging from emergency calls to police interviews and courtroom interaction,…
Promoting the demoted
Foregrounding of subordinate clauses by word order
In modern Danish, main clauses have the word order X>Verb>Adverb (i. e., V2) whereas subordinate clauses are generally characterized by the "subordinate clause" word order Subject>Adverb>Verb. Spoken Danish has a high frequency of "main clause" word order in subordinate clauses, however, and in the article we argue that this "Main Clause Phenomena" (cf. Aelbrecht et al. 2012) functions as a foregrounding device, signaling that the more important …
Promoting the demoted
Promoting the demoted
Introduction to special issue on Forensic Linguistics
This special issue of Nordic Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to the emerging field of forensic linguistics. There are competing definitions and delimitations of this term but here we will use it to refer to the investigation and elucidation of language evidence in a legal context. This includes the scrutiny of language data from different stages of the legal process, ranging from emergency calls to police interviews and courtroom interaction,…
Illicit Genres
This study takes a novel approach to the study of threatening communications by arguing that they can be characterized as a genre – a genre that generally carries strong connotations of intimidation, fear, aggression, power, and coercion. We combine the theoretical framework of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) with results from theoretical and empirical analyses of threats to arrive at a more comprehensive perspective of threats. Since threats do n…
Foregrounding of subordinate clauses by word order
In modern Danish, main clauses have the word order X>Verb>Adverb (i. e., V2) whereas subordinate clauses are generally characterized by the "subordinate clause" word order Subject>Adverb>Verb. Spoken Danish has a high frequency of "main clause" word order in subordinate clauses, however, and in the article we argue that this "Main Clause Phenomena" (cf. Aelbrecht et al. 2012) functions as a foregrounding device, signaling that the more important …
Decoding Terrorism
This Element is an interdisciplinary analysis of the language evidence produced before, during and following a lone-actor terrorism attack in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2019, resulting in two casualties. During his final preparations, the perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Stephan Balliet, announced his attack online and disseminated a targeted violence manifesto shortly before live-streaming his violent act. This post-hoc investigation introd…
Justifying threats
All verbal threats are phrased and communicated by a sender that may be represented within the threatening message in the form of first-person pronouns (1PPs). Seeking to understand the sender's self-representation in linguistic threats better, we have developed a coding scheme for what we term discourse functions in threatening messages and applied it to utterances containing a 1PP, extracted from a corpus of written, Danish threats. Unsurprisin…
Mainstreaming violent extremism through language play in the Halle manifesto
In 2019, a perpetrator opened fire outside the local synagogue in Halle, Germany. Prior to the terrorist attack, he had posted several documents and links on social media, including a manifesto. Notably, these documents draw on participatory practices familiar to more mainstream participatory communities, while deemphasizing the ideological motivation of the attack. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining media studies with linguistics, t…
Linguistics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (3 works) · Danish (2 works) · Dependent clause (2 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works) · History (2 works)