Publications

Publication details [#55095]

Leudar, Ivan and Jiří Nekvapil. 2011. Practical historians and adversaries: 9/11 revisited. Discourse & Society 22 (1) : 66–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | discourse analysis | historical explanation | political discussion

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Reviewing an earlier analysis of political discourse, directly following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA, this study expands the concept of ‘structured immediacy’ (Leudar et al., 2008) by examining methods deployed by adversaries to make the past relevant and consequential in wars.