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Civilization and civilized in post-9/11 US presidential speeches

Tanja Collet

UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA, tcollet{at}uwindsor.ca

The aim of this article is to show, by means of an analysis of the occurrences of civilization and civilized in a corpus of US presidential speeches that spans three years (2001—4), that despite claims to the contrary, the New World Order discourse contains a `clash of civilizations' frame, at least since the terrorist attacks of 2001. We have analysed the occurrences of civilization and civilized using a three-fold approach: (a) a Narrative Conceptualization Analysis of civilization; (b) a Membership Categorization Analysis of the collocation civilized world; and, to a lesser extent, (c) an analysis of the rhetorical strategies in which civilization and civilized participate.

Key Words: `clash of civilizations' • legitimating discourse • membership categorization analysis • narrative conceptualization analysis • New World Order discourse • `war on terror'

Discourse & Society, Vol. 20, No. 4, 455-475 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0957926509104023
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