The discourse of Olympic security: London 2012  

Oleh:

MacDonald, Malcolm N. ; Hunter, Duncan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Society (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 1 (Jan. 2013), page 66-88.
Topik: Ban-opticon; CDA; corpus analysis; discourse; games; Olympics; security; sport mega-event; terrorism
Fulltext: vol. 24 issue 1 January 2013. p. 66-88.pdf (444.65KB)

Isi artikel

This article uses a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualization of the ‘ban-opticon’, it addresses two questions: (1) What distinctive linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012? (2) How is Olympic security realized as a discursive practice in these documents? Findings suggest that the documents indeed realized key features of the ban-opticon: exceptionalism, exclusion and prediction, as well as what we call ‘pedagogization’. Claims were made for the exceptional scale of the Olympic events; predictive technologies were proposed to assess the threat from terrorism; and documentary evidence suggests that access to Olympic venues was being constituted to resemble transit through national boundaries.

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