Speech Involvement in the Activity of a Radical Community: A Critical Discursive Study of Precedence

The article substantiates a critical approach to the study of speech involvement in the activities of a radical organization (evidence from "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami"). On the example of the precedent phenomenon "ziyarat" as a means of control over society, the dependence of the use of language means on the features of the general context, the stage of inclusive impact and the form of involving interaction is shown. It is revealed that behind the rethinking of the terminology of traditional Islam there is a hidden intention to form an ideologically colored idea of religion in the audience. The analyzed contexts of the use of the "ziyarat" unit allow the authors to draw the following conclusions about the features of involvement peculiar to "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami". (1) The semantic change of the initial element "ziyarat" can be qualified as one of the special cases of recontextualization - zero transposition, which is the transition of a religious term to the category of expression used by a socially separate group for its own purposes. (2) The polysemy of the "ziyarat" element develops along the path of conceptualizing the semantic derivation of the very situation of the work of members of the community with the primary audience. The ideas of the nature of the interaction, given the tone of the requirements to the addressee, as well as the means of designation of the primary audience, demonstrate the features of the hierarchy established in the organization. In it, authority is closely connected with the activity and directive of the agent, with his right to own and dispose of human resources, as well as his ability to purposefully create the events of ziyarat. The lack of power correlates with the passivity of the counterparty. (3) The use of the "ziyarat" item in communicative acts serves as an additional argument in favor of relations of domination. Instructing and explanatory passages serve as the leading means of realizing power. It is precisely such forms of speech influence with which, on the one hand, the behavior of the addressee, designed to carry out the ziyarat, is controlled, and, on the other hand, a certain value attitude to the undeveloped society by the organization, considered as a resource for replenishing its ranks, is formed. (4) The use of the "ziyarat" unit as a precedent phenomenon refers to the program settings of "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami", in the light of which the construction of the caliphate is impossible without the formation of an ever-replenishing community. The status of illegality leaves a certain imprint on the attitude of the community to one of the traditional terms of Islam. In the course of regular learning interactions, it is used as a means of manipulating the consciousness, through which the necessary acts for recruiting the primary audience are sought. The essence of such manipulation consists in carrying through the language the shell of a term of a completely different meaning limiting the perception of the doctrine of Islam by the ideology of a radicalized community.

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