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Congrats on the new book Adam! I'll look forward to reading it.<BR>
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Hope all is going well with the edited book too!<BR>
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Best,<BR>
-Janis. <BR> <BR>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:14:11 -0400<BR>> From: adamhodges@CMU.EDU<BR>> Subject: NEW BOOK: The 'War on Terror' Narrative<BR>> To: DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>> <BR>> I'm pleased to announce my new book in the Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics:<BR>> <BR>> The War on Terror Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the<BR>> Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality<BR>> Adam Hodges<BR>> <BR>> Oxford University Press<BR>> Paperback, 192 pages<BR>> ISBN13: 9780199759583<BR>> ISBN10: 0199759588<BR>> Price: $39.95<BR>> <BR>> The War on Terror Narrative analyzes three types of data--presidential<BR>> speeches, U.S. media discourse, and focus group interviews--to provide<BR>> a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and<BR>> contestation of the Bush administration's narrative about the "war on<BR>> terror." The narrative sustains, in Foucault's terms, a "regime of<BR>> truth" by placing boundaries around what can meaningfully be said and<BR>> understood about the subject. Adam Hodges illustrates that even as<BR>> social actors resist the narrative and the policy it entails, they<BR>> appropriate its language to be heard and understood. While this often<BR>> works to strengthen the narrative, discourse is inevitably reshaped as<BR>> it enters into new contexts. This recontextualization allows for the<BR>> introduction of new meanings, and therein lies the potential for<BR>> resistance and social transformation. Hodges argues that applying<BR>> ideas on intertextuality to the analysis of political discourse is<BR>> central to understanding the way micro-level discursive action<BR>> contributes to macro-level cultural narratives like the Bush "War on<BR>> Terror" narrative.<BR>> <BR>> More information:<BR>> http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SociolinguisticsAnthropologicalL/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTc1OTU4Mw==<BR> </body>
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