Overview

Explores the discursive production of identities, the shaping of ideologies, and the formation of collective understandings in response to 9/11 in the United States and around the world. This book represents diverse sub-fields involved in the critical study of language, including perspectives from sociocultural linguistics, communication, media.

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Author:   Adam Hodges (University of Colorado) ,  Chad Nilep (University of Colorado)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   24
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9789027227140

ISBN 10:   9027227144
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   11 April 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Table of contents; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Author affiliations; 4. Introduction: Discourse, war and terrorism (by Hodges, Adam); 5. Emerging threats and coming dangers : Claiming the future for preventive war (by Dunmire, Patricia L.); 6. Enforcing justice, justifying force: America's justification of violence in the New World Order (by Lazar, Annita); 7. The narrative construction of identity: The adequation of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden in the war on terror (by Hodges, Adam); 8. Discourses of freedom: Gender and religion in US media coverage of the war on Iraq (by Lemons, Katherine); 9. Arabs in the morning paper: A case of shifting identity (by Stoltz, Gregory Ian); 10. Visual discourses of war: Multimodal analysis of photographs of the Iraq occupation (by Machin, David); 11. Martyrs and terrorists, resistance and insurgency : Contextualizing the exchange of terrorism discourses on Al-Jazeera (by Schulthies, Becky); 12. Between us and them : Two TV interviews with German chancellor Gerhard Schroder in the run-up to the Iraq war (by Becker, Annette); 13. Discourse of war and terrorism in Serbia: We were fighting the terrorists already in Bosnia... (by Volcic, Zala); 14. Fear of terror attack persists : Constructing fear in reports on terrorism by international news agencies (by Stenvall, Maija); 15. The politics of fear: A critical inquiry into the role of violence in 21st century politics (by Stocchetti, Matteo); 16. Index

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This book serves as a testament to the growing inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary nature of (critical) discourse studies. In this book, the editors Hodges and Nilep have succeeded at bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds to address an increasingly important theme, the war on terror, with its political, social, and cultural implications. Informed by theories from critical language studies, ethnography, multimodality, political science, and cultural studies, the analyses in this book all employ empirical data and apply clearly defined methodologies. This book would be an excellent addition to the shelves of those interested in the critical study of discourse, particularly those who want to understand how discourse has been used to legitimate war, subvert opposition, and obfuscate reality in the seemingly unending fight against terrorists worldwide. -- Lutfi M. Hussein, Mesa Community College, Arizona, in Discourse & Society 20(2), 2009.

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