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The discourse of security: language, illiberalism and governmentality (2018)
Book
Hunter, D. (2019). M. N. MacDonald, & D. Hunter (Eds.), The discourse of security: language, illiberalism and governmentality. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97193-3

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to invest... Read More about The discourse of security: language, illiberalism and governmentality.

Arguments for exception in US security discourse (2017)
Journal Article
Hunter, D., & MacDonald, M. N. (2017). Arguments for exception in US security discourse. Discourse and Society, 28(5), 493-511 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517710978

In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and... Read More about Arguments for exception in US security discourse.

The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of US security organisations (2017)
Journal Article
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

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 constitu... Read More about The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of US security organisations.

The idea as a mechanism in language teacher development (2016)
Journal Article
Hunter, D., & Kiely, R. (2016). The idea as a mechanism in language teacher development. Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research, 5(1), 37-61

In recent decades two broad but distinguishable approaches to language teacher development have predominated: an informing approach based largely on the transmission of principles of new theory and method; and a responsive approach centering on teach... Read More about The idea as a mechanism in language teacher development.

An investigation of how English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) is shaped by policy, teachers and learners (2016)
Thesis
Nickson, M. An investigation of how English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) is shaped by policy, teachers and learners. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository...tribe.com/output/545652

From 2001, the position of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) changed from a practice of language learning and teaching on the periphery of education, to a position on the centre stage of Government social... Read More about An investigation of how English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) is shaped by policy, teachers and learners.