Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism'Writing the war on terrorism' examines the public language of the war on terrorism, and the way that rhetoric has been used to justify the global counter-terrorism offensive as a response to 9/11. It discusses how language has been used to deliberately manipulate public anxiety about terrorist threats to gain support for military action, and how the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has been normalised through rhetoric and practice. . The author argues that the normalisation and institutionalisation of the administration's current counter-terrorism approach is damaging to society's ethical values and to democratic political participation. |
Contents
language and politics | 1 |
Analysing the language of counterterrorism | 8 |
Writing September 11 2001 | 29 |
Writing identity evil terrorists good Americans | 59 |
Writing threat and danger | 92 |
Writing the good new war on terrorism | 121 |
Language and power reproducing the discourse | 153 |
politics violence and resistance | 180 |
official texts | 190 |
References | 216 |
Index | 225 |
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Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism Richard Jackson No preview available - 2005 |
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