Publications

Publication details [#46386]

Erjavec, Karmen and Zala Volčič. 2007. War on terrorism as a discursive battleground: Serbian recontextualization of G.W. Bush's discourse. Discourse & Society 18 (2) : 123–137.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | contextualization | discourse analysis | mass media | political discussion

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines the recontextualization of G.W. Bush's ‘war on terrorism’ discourse by young Serbian intellectuals, with the aim of retroactively legitimizing Serbian violence against Muslims during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.