Representations of War and Terrorism. The Ideology and Language of George W. Bush

Representations of War and Terrorism. The Ideology and Language of George W. Bush addresses some key issues of the relationship between language and politics. The first part of the book provides readers with the necessary linguistic tools and methods, namely those offered by Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, which would enable them to analyse the language of politics. In the second part, these tools and methods are applied to the speeches on war and terrorism given by George Bush between 2001 and 2003. In a period dominated by 9/11 and the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, these speeches have greatly influenced Western political and even cultural attitudes, especially those towards the Muslim world. The linguistic analysis of Bush’s speeches sheds light on the complex ideological framework which originated them.