MacDonald, Malcolm;
Hunter, Duncan;
O'Regan, John;
(2013)
Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism : UK security discourse, 2001-2011.
Journal of Language and Politics
, 12
(3)
pp. 445-473.
10.1075/jlp.12.3.07mac.
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Abstract
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which set 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 in particular on features of connotation and semantic prosody.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism : UK security discourse, 2001-2011 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1075/jlp.12.3.07mac |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.12.3.07mac |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | security, counter-terrorism, citizenship, community, cohesion, corpus, Prevent, extremism, Government, Media and cultural studies, Politics and international relations, Language and Linguistics |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10012144 |
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