By Christiana Gregoriou
In this booklet, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identification and its comparable ideology throughout more than a few modern crime narratives, together with detective fiction, the real crime style and media journalism. How precisely is the serial killer recognition portrayed, how is the killing linguistically justified, and the way distinguishing is the language revolving round felony ideology and id throughout those narrative genres? via utilizing linguistic and content-related equipment of study, her research goals to paintings towards the advance of a stylistic framework at the illustration of serial killer ideology throughout authentic (i.e. media texts), factional (i.e. real crime books) and fictional (i.e. novels) homicide narratives. ‘Schema’ is a time period conventional to consult organised bundles of data in our brains, that are activated after we come upon occasions we have now formerly skilled, a ‘group schema’ being one such stock shared by means of many. by means of analysing serial homicide narratives throughout quite a few genres, Gregoriou uncovers a greatly shared ‘group schema’ for those murderers, and questions the level to which actual legal minds are in reality linguistically fictionalised. Gregoriou’s research of the psychological functioning and illustration of felony personas might help light up our schematic knowing of tangible felony minds.
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