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MacDonald, Malcolm, Hunter, Duncan and O'Regan, John P. (2013) Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism : UK security discourse, 2001-2011. Journal of Language and Politics, Volume 12 (Number 3). pp. 445-473. doi:10.1075/jlp.12.3.07mac ISSN 1569-2159.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.12.3.07mac
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This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were defined: one relating to a discourse of citizenship and community cohesion (2001-2006); and one relating to the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ discourse (2007-2011). Wordsmith Tools (Scott 2008) was used to investigate keywords and patterns of collocation. The results present
themes emerging from a comparative analysis of the 100 strongest keywords in each sub- corpus; as well as a qualitative analysis of related patterns of the collocation, focusing inparticular on features of connotation and semantic prosody.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | National security -- Great Britain, Language policy -- Great Britain, Language and languages -- Political aspects, Historical linguistics -- Great Britain -- 21st century, Terrorism -- Prevention, Communities -- Great Britain | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Language and Politics | ||||
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. | ||||
| ISSN: | 1569-2159 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 12 | ||||
| Number: | Number 3 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 20 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 445-473 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1075/jlp.12.3.07mac | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 December 2015 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 December 2015 | ||||
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