Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-218) and index.
Contents:
Proximization and legitimization -- A brief history of proximization -- Direct goals -- Theoretical environment and theoretical implications as indirect goals -- Chapter overview -- Proximization as a (linguistic) concept -- Introduction -- Paul Chilton : from representational proximising in geopolitical spaces to Deictic Space Theory -- The 2004 approach : 3-d positioning and representations of the Kosovo war -- Discourse Space Theory or Deictic Space Theory? -- Piotr Cap : proximization for legitimization : in search of quantifiable evidence -- The conceptual and qualitative stage -- The qualitative-quantitative stage -- Christopher Hart : proximization and/within coercion, predication, metaphor -- Patricia Dunmire : proximization across political genres -- Other approaches -- Approaches to proximization versus traditional accounts of deixis and perspective -- Summary -- Proximization and legitimization -- Introduction -- Axiological proximization with high and explicit impact probability -- Perspectives from cognitive science, socio-political theory and social psychology -- Perspectives from linguistic pragmatics, text linguistics and critical discourse studies -- Legitimization through proximization, proximization for legitimization -- A sample analysis -- Maintaining the (AEI) legitimization : changes in proximization strategies -- Interventionist discourses -- Beyond the war-on-terror -- Conceptual structure of the (S)patial-(T)emporal-(A)xiological model of proximization -- Introduction -- Spatial proximization -- Threat construal through the ODC characterization -- Threat construal through the ODC impact speed -- Threat construal through the ODC impact consequences -- Temporal proximization -- A September morning -- Towards more quantifiable markers -- Axiological proximization -- Axiological proximization with high and explicit impact probability -- Context -- Conclusions -- The STA model and the 2001-2010 decade of the anti-terrorist discourse : methodology and data -- Introduction -- Three frameworks of proximization -- The spatial proximization framework -- Category assignment of spatial proximization items -- The temporal proximization framework -- Category assignment of temporal proximization items -- The axiological proximization framework -- Category assignment of axiological proximization items -- The corpus and the sub-corpora -- Counts from the proximization frameworks -- Counts from the spatial framework -- Counts from the temporal framework -- Counts from the axiological framework -- Conclusion -- The STA model and the 2001-2010 decade of the anti-terrorist discourse : discussion -- Introduction -- Period One (PI) : September 11,2001-October 31, 2003 -- Context -- Outlook. Period Two (P2) : November 1, 2003-June 30, 2004 -- Context -- Response to context : Preventing growth of evil values for export -- Period Three (P3) : July 1, 2004-January 19, 2009 -- Context -- Response to context : back to (the vision of) the future -- Period Four (P4) : January 20, 2009-December 31, 2010 -- Context -- Response to context : threat routinized -- Conclusion -- Towards further applications of proximization theory -- Introduction -- Health : proximization in cancer prevention discourse -- Environment : proximization in climate change discourse -- Modern technology : proximization of cyber-threat -- Proximization in political party representation : a view from Poland -- Outlook.
Series:
Pragmatics & Beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 232
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