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Overview"The War on Terror Narrative analyzes three types of data--presidential speeches, U.S. media discourse, and focus group interviews--to provide a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation of the Bush administration's narrative about the ""war on terror."" The narrative sustains, in Foucault's terms, a ""regime of truth"" by placing boundaries around what can meaningfully be said and understood about the subject. Adam Hodges illustrates that even as social actors resist the narrative and the policy it entails, they appropriate its language to be heard and understood. While this often works to strengthen the narrative, discourse is inevitably reshaped as it enters into new contexts. This recontextualization allows for the introduction of new meanings, and therein lies the potential for resistance and social transformation. Hodges argues that applying ideas on intertextuality to the analysis of political discourse is central to understanding the way micro-level discursive action contributes to macro-level cultural narratives like the Bush ""War on Terror"" narrative." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adam Hodges (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780199759590ISBN 10: 0199759596 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 02 June 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Characterization of 9/11 and America's Response to Terrorism Chapter 3. The Narrative's Part-Whole Textual Interdependence Chapter 4. The Construction of Al Qaeda and Iraq as Linked Antagonists Chapter 5. Intertextual Series: Reproduction and Resistance in the Media Chapter 6. Talking Politics: The Narrative's Reception among College Students Chapter 7. Whose Vietnam?: Discursive Competition over the Vietnam Analogy Chapter 8. Conclusion Appendix A. Corpus of Presidential Speeches Appendix B. Transcription Conventions for Presidential Speeches Appendix C. Transcription Conventions for Focus Group Interviews Media Discourse Data References IndexReviews<br> Adam Hodges moves sociocultural linguistics forward by providing an analysis of the intertextual series involved in such well-known turns of phrase as the War on Terror and You're either with us or with the terrorists ; phrases that have become the currency of the last ten years of our political dealings with large portions of the Middle East. Written in a crystalline style where the data is allowed to stand on its own, while still woven with theoretical insights, this riveting work follows the trail of the War on Terror narrative from presidents' to pundits' to students' lips. This timely work stands as an excellent example of the difference linguistic scholarship can make when applied to contemporary problems. --Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona<p><br> This book is more than a wonderful record of a key moment in recent US political rhetoric; it is also an exemplary work of critical discourse analysis. Adam Hodges carefully maps the trajectory of a discursive item Author InformationAdam Hodges is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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