The discourse of war after 9/11

Montgomery, M.M. (2005) The discourse of war after 9/11. Language and Literature, 14 (2). pp. 149-180. ISSN 0963-9470 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947005051286)

Abstract

The article traces the emergence of war as the dominant term for responding to the events of 9/11. It does so by focusing on speeches, interviews and newspaper headlines in the immediate aftermath of the attacks in their discursive-pragmatic contexts. In order to account for the salience and circulation of an expression such as war, it proposes for the public sphere a principle of discursive amplification. The article also highlights, however, the unevenness of the adoption of the term war by showing how differently it was inflected at different moments and in different sections of the public sphere. In addition, other modes of expression could have been adopted. The article provides some discursive reasons why war prevailed.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	3944
  Dates:	Date Event 2005 Published
  Subjects:	Language and Literature > English
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > Journalism, Media and Communication
  Depositing user:	Strathprints Administrator
  Date deposited:	20 Jul 2007
  Last modified:	11 Nov 2024 08:29
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/3944