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Schnurr, Stephanie, Homolar, Alexandra, MacDonald, Malcolm and Rethel, Lena (2015) Legitimizing claims for 'crisis' leadership in global governance. Critical Discourse Studies, 12 (2). pp. 187-205. doi:10.1080/17405904.2014.974636 ISSN 1740-5904.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2014.974636
Abstract
This paper explores the discursive processes of legitimizing leadership claims in the context of the nuclear proliferation crisis. Three complementary analyses of texts are carried out: discourse analyses of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and relevant speeches by members of the US administration, as well as a corpus analysis of news media accounts of nuclear proliferation published in prominent US and UK broadsheets. Findings suggest that leadership claims are legitimized through a range of discursive strategies, which are echoed across the different text types. However, a combination and comparison of the different datasets puts these findings into perspective and reveals that the various contexts and text types in which these leadership claims are made differ remarkably in terms of their use of relevant terms relating to leadership and crisis. We argue that this dynamic is best captured by the notion of an (inter)discursive chain of legitimization.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | United Nations. Security Council, Nuclear nonproliferation, Security, International, Political leadership | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Discourse Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1740-5904 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 187-205 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17405904.2014.974636 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 January 2016 | ||||||
Funder: | University of Warwick, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||
Grant number: | RDF1063 (WU), ES/K008684/1 (ESRC) |
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