Terrorism Discourse in the US - Evolution of Discourse at Presidential Level after 9/11

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2019.22.4.102-124" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2019.22.4.102-124</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Terrorism Discourse in the US - Evolution of Discourse at Presidential Level after 9/11

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Research on the terrorism discourse has been growing recently, however there has not been yet a research that would focus on an almost 18 years long time period and analyse all presidents of a country involved in the war on terror. This article attempts to fill this gap and analyses character and evolution of terrorism discourse in the United States at presidential level. It focuses on discourse evolution since the 9/11 attacks until the end of 2018. Author believes that it is important to know the character of discourse to be able to fight terrorism effectively, because rhetoric can influence counterterrorism measures and make them ineffective by for example being too aggressive or used for manipulation of public opinion. It uses Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis and it analyses official speeches and Twitter accounts of Presidents of the United States in the studied era – George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. It focuses on all three levels of Fairclough´s analysis – textual, intertextual and contextual and it finds that the presidents’ discourses are different in many respects even though they share some important characteristics and they’re generally more calming throughout the time. However, all of the discourses were found not sufficient for effective counterterrorism measures. We need similar analyses of other countries to be able to change the way we present terrorism and make counter-terrorism more effective.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Terrorism Discourse in the US - Evolution of Discourse at Presidential Level after 9/11

Popis výsledku anglicky

Research on the terrorism discourse has been growing recently, however there has not been yet a research that would focus on an almost 18 years long time period and analyse all presidents of a country involved in the war on terror. This article attempts to fill this gap and analyses character and evolution of terrorism discourse in the United States at presidential level. It focuses on discourse evolution since the 9/11 attacks until the end of 2018. Author believes that it is important to know the character of discourse to be able to fight terrorism effectively, because rhetoric can influence counterterrorism measures and make them ineffective by for example being too aggressive or used for manipulation of public opinion. It uses Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis and it analyses official speeches and Twitter accounts of Presidents of the United States in the studied era – George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. It focuses on all three levels of Fairclough´s analysis – textual, intertextual and contextual and it finds that the presidents’ discourses are different in many respects even though they share some important characteristics and they’re generally more calming throughout the time. However, all of the discourses were found not sufficient for effective counterterrorism measures. We need similar analyses of other countries to be able to change the way we present terrorism and make counter-terrorism more effective.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Politické vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

22

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

102-124

Kód UT WoS článku

000509350600005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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