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Manufacturing dissent : the discursive formation of nuclear proliferation (2006-2012)
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MacDonald, Malcolm, Homolar, Alexandra, Rethel, Lena, Schnurr, Stephanie and Vessey, Rachelle (2015) Manufacturing dissent : the discursive formation of nuclear proliferation (2006-2012). Discourse and Communication, Volume 9 (Number 2). pp. 173-197. doi:10.1177/1750481314568546
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481314568546
Abstract
This paper draws on the conceptualisation of 'discursive formation' to examine the particular configuration of the ‘objects, subjects, concepts and strategies’ (Foucault, 1972) which constitute ‘nuclear proliferation’ between 2006 and 2012. While previous studies have mostly explored the discourse of nuclear proliferation through the analysis of newspaper texts, few have considered corpora from different sites or considered the changes, transformations and contradictions that take place when meanings are delocated from one site and relocated in another. Elements of poststructuralist discourse theory, critical linguistics and corpus linguistics are brought together to consider how events were constructed within two corpora: UNSC resolutions and newspaper articles published in prominent UK and US broadsheets. WordSmith Tools (Version 5) was used to analyse word frequencies, statistical patterns of keywords, word collocation profiles and concordance patterns. Results indicate that the most salient lexical items refer to actors, strategic actions and technologies. As these constituents of nuclear proliferation are delocated from the political sphere and relocated in the public sphere, three discursive strategies unfold: personalisation, normalisation or exceptionalisation, and reification.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nuclear nonproliferation, Discourse analysis, Corpora (Linguistics), United Nations. Security Council, Reporters and reporting | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse and Communication | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1750-4813 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 24 April 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 9 | ||||||||
| Number: | Number 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 173-197 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1750481314568546 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | University of Warwick | ||||||||
| Grant number: | RDF1063 |
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