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Distance, proximity, and authenticity in the point of view of US military drone operator autobiographies
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Voice, Matthew (2022) Distance, proximity, and authenticity in the point of view of US military drone operator autobiographies. Discourse Studies, 24 (6). pp. 781-797. doi:10.1177/14614456221112274 ISSN 1461-7080.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221112274
Abstract
Drone warfare disrupts the generally understood experience of war, and drone operators’ distance from the battlefield has called into question the authenticity of their experiences as participants in conflict. This article examines the autobiographies of three US military drone operators, analysing how the narration is discursively oriented to particular spatial and ideological perspectives. It argues that the linguistic construction of point of view in each text reflects a dynamic and sometimes paradoxical relationship between drone operators and their distance from the battlefield. Observing the position and shifting of deictic centres, the analysis draws parallels between spatial perspective, ideology, and the social identities of drone operators and victims of drone strikes. It concludes by reflecting on the variety of discursive strategies employed across these texts, and considers this variation itself to be an emerging trend in the discourse of drone warfare.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1461-7080 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 24 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 781-797 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/14614456221112274 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 August 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 August 2022 |
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