Publications

Publication details [#56727]

Mellor, Noha. 2012. The culture of witnessing: war correspondents rewriting the history of the Iraq War. Language and Intercultural Communication 12 (2) : 103–117.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | historical explanation | journalese | language and culture | language use

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that Arab journalists' narratives of the Iraq War help solidify their professional status as pan-Arab ‘watchdogs’ and analysts vis-à-vis local and western media whilst implicitly strenghtening their cultural power as trustworthy historians.