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The "War on terror" narrative : discourse and intertextuality in the construction and contestation of sociopolitical reality / Adam Hodges.
LIBRA HV6432.7 .H63 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodges, Adam.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Discourse analysis--Political aspects.
- Discourse analysis.
- Critical discourse analysis.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Intertextuality.
- Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946---Language.
- Bush, George W.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 180 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The characterization of 9/11 and America's response to terrorism
- The narrative's part-whole textual interdependence
- The construction of Al Qaeda and Iraq as linked antagonists
- Intertextual series : reproduction and resistance in the media
- Talking politics : the narrative's reception among college students
- Whose Vietnam? : discursive competition over the Vietnam analogy
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199759590
- 0199759596
- 9780199759583
- 0199759588
- OCLC:
- 611552020
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