Writing the war on terrorism: Language, politics and counter-terrorism (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis MUP)
By Richard Jackson.
Description
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. . It explains how the war on terrorism has been reproduced and amplified by key social actors and how it has become the dominant political narrative in America toda...
ISBN(s)
0719071216, 9780719071218
