NEW BOOK: The 'War on Terror' Narrative

[Janis Goldie]

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