Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the "war on terror" to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political, economic and social phenomena. Discourse, War and Terrorism 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. At issue are how enemies are defined and identified, how political leaders and citizens react, and how members of societies understand their position in the world in relation to terrorism. Contributors to this volume represent diverse sub-fields involved in the critical study of language, including perspectives from sociocultural linguistics, communication, media, cultural and political studies.
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
