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- Combines close textual analysis of authentic documents with poststructuralist and political philosophy for a truly interdisciplinary approach
- Examines an extensive collection comprised of four substantial corpora harvested from national and international security organisations
- Provides insights into how language and discourse are utilised by the UK and US governments, security organisations, and the UN Security Council in the face of major global security events
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to investigate four collections of documents harvested from national and international security organisations. This interdisciplinary approach provides insights into the ways in which discourse has been mobilised to construct a strategic response to major terrorist attacks and geo-political events. The authors identify the way in which it is used to realize tactics of governmentality and form security as a discipline. This at once constructs a state of exception while also adhering to the principles of liberalism. This insightful study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of subjects such as applied linguistics, political science, security studies and international relations, with additional relevance to other areasincluding law, criminology, sociology and economics.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Malcolm N. MacDonald
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School of Education, University of Hull, Hull, UK
Duncan Hunter
About the authors
Duncan Hunter is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Hull, UK. His current research and teaching interests are corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and ELT professional history. Within discourse analysis, he has a particular interest in the combination of techniques, including conversational analysis, argumentation, functional grammar and corpus linguistics, to reveal features of spoken and written texts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Discourse of Security
Book Subtitle: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality
Authors: Malcolm N. MacDonald, Duncan Hunter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97193-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97192-6Published: 21 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97193-3Published: 03 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 337
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Poststructuralism, Political Philosophy, International Security Studies, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics