Doing Battle with a Noun: Notes on the Grammar of "Terror"

Autor/in	Crichton, Jonathan
Titel	Doing Battle with a Noun: Notes on the Grammar of "Terror"
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30 (2007) 2, S.19 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
DOI	10.2104/aral0719
Schlagwörter	Rhetoric; Terrorism; Nouns; Speeches; Contrastive Linguistics; Comparative Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theory; Grammar + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rhetorik; Terrorismus; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Diskursanalyse; Computerlinguistik; Linguistische Theorie; Grammatik
Abstract	Studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives have highlighted how the public rhetoric of the Bush administration has shaped the representation of the conflict which has followed 9/11. However, the literature in this area raises but does not itself address the question of how the administration's use of "terror", "terrorism" and "terrorist(s)" contributes to this representation. This paper addresses the question by providing a preliminary analysis of how these terms participate in the grammar of twelve of George W. Bush's speeches since 9/11. Drawing on Systemic Functional Grammar, the analysis suggests that "terror" has become interchangeable with "terrorism" and "terrorist(s)", resulting in the personification of "terror" as an abstract agent. The implications of this construction are explored in relation to the literature on the rhetoric associated with the "war on terror". (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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