In:Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives
Edited by Antoon De Rycker and Zuraidah Mohd Don
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 52] 2013
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 13 December 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.52.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
Introduction
Discourse in crisis, crisis in discourse
‘Crisis’ in Modernity: A sign of the times between decisive change and potential irreversibility
Part I: Organizational discourse
Serving a high-risk warrant: The role of context in police crisis negotiations
Misalignments in Finnish emergency call openings: Legitimacy, asymmetries and multi-tasking as interactional contests
Collaboration in crisis: Pursuing perception through multiple descriptions (how friendly vehicles became damn rocket launchers)
Part II: Political discourse
The political use of a national crisis: Bush’s legitimation of the USA Freedom Corps in the wake of September 11
Reflections in the eyes of a dying tiger: Looking back on Ireland’s 1987 economic crisis
Local community leaders’ constructions of women’s interests and needs: Impeding resolution of Kenya’s development crisis
The financial crisis hits hard: The impact of emerging crisis on discursive strategies and linguistic devices in EU Financial Stability Reviews (2004-2010)
Part III: Media discourse
Red or Yellow, Peace or War: Agonism and antagonism in online discussion during the 2010 political unrest in Thailand
The 2008 urban riots in Greece: Differential representations of a police shooting incident
Benefit or burden? Press representation of immigrant workers during the Spanish economic recession
Mexico City and the H1N1 health crisis: The discursive interconnectedness of viruses, murders, policy fiascos and tumbling pesos
Polarization in the media representation of terrorism crises: Transitivity and lexical choices in Malaysia’s leading English dailies
Epilogue
A paradoxical approach to crisis
Notes on contributors
Name index
Subject index
