Proximizing fear: multimodal racial and religious threatoric in Malaysia’s 15th General Election TikTok videos

This chapter examines the linguistic mechanisms underlying threat rhetoric (threatoric) in TikTok videos during Malaysia’s 15th General Election (GE15), focusing on how conditional structures in proximization strategies frame racial and religious anxieties. Drawing on Proximization Theory (Cap, 2006...

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Main Author: Mohamad Jamil, Siti Nurnadilla
Format: Book Chapter
Language:en
Published: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer 2025
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/123060/1/123060_Proximizing%20fear.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/123060/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-94985-2_9
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