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6 - The Linguistic Construction of Political Crimes in Kurdish-Iraqi Sherko Bekas’ Poem The Small Mirrors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
Mahmood Kadir Ibrahim  and
Ulrike Tabbert
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Ibrahim and Tabbert continue on the topic of victims with an exploration of a selected passage by Iraqi Kurdish poet Sherko Bekas’ The Small Mirrors. The authors employ the framework of Critical Stylistics (Jeffries 2010) that is particularly suited to detect ideological meaning in texts.

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poetryCritical StylisticsgenocideSherko Bekasvictim
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 105 - 120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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