BibTeX

@incollection{fridlund-etal-2022-diachrony-320191,
	title        = {The Diachrony of Political Terror: Tracing Terror and Terrorism in Swedish Parliamentary Data 1867–1970},
	abstract     = {The paper explores the development of the closely related words ‘terror’ and ‘terrorism’ as manifested
in the discourse of the Swedish Parliament, 1867–1970, drawing on digital history and
language technology methodologies and tools. Combining distant and close reading, we show
that terror-related words first gained traction from 1918 and onwards. The recorded uses of words
and compounds indicate that terror-related phenomena were often associated with states rather
than individuals, but also that terror-related words have been used metaphorically in relation to
non-violent domestic issues. Our results confirm the argument that the word terrorism primarily
gained its modern meaning in the early 1970s. We conclude by stressing the potential of combining
LT-driven and interpretative approaches for investigating the diachronicity of words in
Parliamentary corpora.},
	booktitle    = {Live and Learn: Festschrift in Honor of Lars Borin, eds. Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Markus Forsberg & Shafqat Virk},
	author       = {Fridlund, Mats and Brodén, Daniel and Wåhlstrand Skärström, Victor},
	year         = {2022},
	publisher    = {Göteborgs universitet},
	address      = {Göteborg},
	ISBN         = {978-91-87850-82-0},
	pages        = {43--47},
}