Dr Duncan Hunter D.Hunter@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer/ Programme Director for MA TESOL
Dr Duncan Hunter D.Hunter@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer/ Programme Director for MA TESOL
Malcolm MacDonald
This paper explores two views of the changes that have occurred in the US security services as a result of their post 9/11 reform. The first is Bigo’s (2008) suggestion that agencies worldwide have become enmeshed in shared activity so as to constitute a new ‘field of (in)security’. A second, novel perspective is that the security services have evolved many of the characteristics of a discipline or (after Foucault, 1972) ‘discursive formation’, constructing intelligence both as a form of expertly constituted knowledge and as the basis for a new type of professional, disciplinary power. The investigation combines corpus techniques with other discourse analysis procedures to examine a corpus of public-facing texts generated by the US security agencies. The investigation aims to synthesise evidence consistent with both views of the security services’ recent historical change; that features of their discourse signal their emergence simultaneously as a new field and discursive formation.
Hunter, D., & MacDonald, M. (2017). The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of US security organisations. Critical Discourse Studies, 14(2), 206-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2016.1268185
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 25, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 11, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jan 11, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Sep 5, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 13, 2018 |
Journal | Critical discourse studies |
Print ISSN | 1740-5904 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 206-222 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2016.1268185 |
Keywords | CDA; Corpus analysis; Discourse; Security; FBI; CIA; Foucault |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/442723 |
Publisher URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405904.2016.1268185 |
Additional Information | This is the accepted manuscript of an article published in Critical discourse studies, 2017. The version of record is available at the DOI link in this record. |
Contract Date | Sep 5, 2016 |
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