[Linganth] FW: Query from a student looking for resources on the way "terrorist" is used in everyday discourse

[Elise Kramer]

There are a couple of articles that might be of methodological use to your
student:

Strauss, Claudia. 2007. “Blaming for Columbine: Conceptions of Agency in
the Contemporary United States.” *Current Anthropology* 48 (6): 807–32. (A
great example of how to do qualitative research on news articles, and
tangentially related to the topic of terrorism.)

Johnson, Sally, Jonathan Culpeper, and Stephanie Suhr. 2003. “From
‘Politically Correct Councillors’ to ‘Blairite Nonsense’: Discourses of
‘Political Correctness’ in Three British Newspapers.” *Discourse & Society*
14 (1): 29–47. (This one is more quantitative discourse analysis, but I
like the authors' approach of comparing three newspapers ranging from
liberal to conservative, which seems like it could be a manageable project
for an undergrad. Search the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and
the New York Times for "terrorist" and see how they apply the term
differently?)

Best,
Elise


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Elise Kramer, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Jennifer Guzmán <
jennifer.r.guzman at gmail.com> wrote:

> One older but worthwhile article she could take a look at is Cohn's
> (1987) Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals.
> Signs 12(4):687-718, which has some eery parallels to dominant
> discourse today about such things as terrorism.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Pritzker, Sonya <sonya.pritzker at ua.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Pritzker, Sonya" <sonya.pritzker at ua.edu>
> > Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 4:27 PM
> > To: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group
> > <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> > Subject: Query from a student looking for resources on the way
> "terrorist"
> > is used in everyday discourse
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have an undergrad student taking my Language & Culture class, and she
> sent
> > me the following query:
> >
> >  "I am really interested in doing research on the ramifications of using
> the
> > word terrorism and how different actors use that word to designate
> certain
> > groups as terrorists. Let me know if there is anything more i could look
> > into or if this not something linguistic anthropology would deal with."
> >
> > I’ve pointed her to social media and the news, and will meet with her to
> > discuss other options. But I was wondering if anyone here could recommend
> > any materials that she could read on the topic.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Sonya
> >
> >
> > Sonya Pritzker, Ph.D.,  Assistant Professor
> > University of Alabama, Department of Anthropology
> > 350 Marr’s Spring Rd. Tuscaloosa AL 35401
> > (205) 348-6554 (office)
> > (805) 574-0091 (mobile)
> > http://spritzker.people.ua.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
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