Semantic Isotopies of Retribution in Pre-Attack Manifestos: An AI-Assisted Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Moral Justification
Pre-attack written communications encode ideological structure, yet existing computational analyses rely on prior-loaded feature spaces—hand-curated Lakoff inventories or LIWC-style counters—that confirm what the literature already expects rather than discovering what is in the data. We present a neuro-symbolic archite...