Cancer has nothing on Islam: a study of discourses by group elite and supporters of the English defence league

This paper uses methods from corpus linguistics and discourse analysis to analyse discourses produced by a populist far-right movement, the English Defence League (EDL), an organisation which the group elite claim is opposed to the spread of Islamism, Sharia law and Islamic extremism in the UK. Two corpora are analysed using the online Corpus Query System, Sketch Engine [Kilgarriff, A., Rychly, P., Smrz, P., & Tugwell, D. (2004). The sketch...