Gordon C. Chang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gordon C. Chang plays a role.
Articles
2013 Evidencing international threat: Examining Iraq Survey Group’s post-invasion verification of Iraq’s WMD threat Journal of Language and Politics 12:1, pp. 29–58 | Article
By studying the discourse utilized by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) and its chief officers during 2003–2004, we show the methods by which U.S. government-appointed experts helped to affirm the existence of an Iraqi threat even in the absence of physical evidence for weapons of mass destruction (WMD)… read more
2006 Discourse in a religious mode: The Bush administration’s discourse in the war on terrorism and its challenges Pragmatics 16:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
This study of the politics of representation illustrates the Bush Administration’s use of a religious mode of representation to make sense of the 9/11 events, to legitimize military actions against the Taliban, Afghanistan, and terrorism in general. The religious mode of representation is enabled… read more