Civilization and Civilized in Post-9/11 US Presidential Speeches  

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Collet, Tanja

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Society (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 4 (Jul. 2009), page 455-475.
Topik: ‘clash of civilizations’; legitimating discourse; membership categorization analysis; narrative conceptualization analysis; New World Order discourse; ‘war on terror’
Fulltext: Vol 20, no (4), page 455–475.pdf (180.98KB)

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The aim of this article is to show, by means of an analysis of the occurrences of civilization and civilized in a corpus of US presidential speeches that spans three years (2001–4), that despite claims to the contrary, the New World Order discourse contains a ‘clash of civilizations’ frame, at least since the terrorist attacks of 2001. We have analysed the occurrences of civilization and civilized using a three-fold approach: (a) a Narrative Conceptualization Analysis of civilization; (b) a Membership Categorization Analysis of the collocation civilized world; and, to a lesser extent, (c) an analysis of the rhetorical strategies in which civilization and civilized participate.

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