Discursive Practices and Narrative Building in Post 9/11 Among Young American Adults
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26710/reads.v5i4.661Keywords:
Power Structures, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Practices, Identity, Post 9/11Abstract
The changing undercurrents of the political situation of the world, in the aftermath of 9/11, seem to have affected the notion of the 'other' in the social, cultural and most expressively the discourse of literature. The power structures embedded in these discourses have influenced the social practices in the portrayal of the 'other'. The construction of the 'other' is epitomized through writings illustrating biases that reveal themselves in ostracizing communities and ideologies. The socio-political implications of the identity in post 9/11 require further investigation. The current study investigates the portrayal of the 'other' delineated in American young adults. The theoretical perspectives of Siegfried Jager and Teun van Dijk (2001) in the domain of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) were employed to analyze the data. The results of the investigation substantiated that the 'other' was redefined as an entity loaded with explicit negative implications and depicted by adding a prefix to the ‘other’ creating a ‘Muslim other’. The paper has implications for socio-political, education and cultural setting and practices in society.
References
Amadeo, K. (2019, January 26). How the 9/11 Attacks Affect the Economy Today? Retrieved from thebalance.com: https://www.thebalance.com/how-the-9-11-attacks-still-affect-the-economy-today-3305536
Amsterdam Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Dam. L., Holmgreen.L.L ,Strunck. J. (2008).Rhetorical aspects of discourses in present – day society.
Dijk, T. A. (1984). Prejudice in Discourse. An Analysis of Ethnic Prejudice in Cognition and Conversation.
Dijk, T. A. (1995). Ideological Discourse Analysis. In E. V. (Eds), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Discourse Analysis, 4, New Courant (Special issue) (pp. 135-161).
Fiction about 9/11. Queensland. Retrieved from https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16550
Griffin.G. (2007).The Uses of Discourse Analysis in the Study of Gender and Migration. Discourse and Society, 1-35.
Hodges, A. (2011). The 'War on Terror" Narrative Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality. New York: Oxford University Press
J. (2007). The Whole World Shook: Shifts in Ethnic, NAtional and Heroic Identities in Children's
Jensen, S.Q. (2011). Othering, identity formation and agency. Qualitative Studies, 2(2): 63-78.
Lakoff, G., &Johnsen, M. (2003 (1980)).Mataphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lampert,
Little .D. (2008).American Orientalism. Carolina: North Carolina Press.
Makinen, G. (2002). The Economic Effects of 9/11: A Retrospective Assessment. NewYork: Congressional Research Service "The Library of Congress". Retrieved July Tuesday , 2019, from https://fas.org/irp/crs/RL31617.pdf
Mansoor, A. (2012). Post 9/11 identity Crisis in H. M. Naqvi's Home Boy.Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, 4, 8-44.
Newcastle, U. K. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. London: Penguin.
Said, E. (2003). Orientalism. London: Penguin.
Spivak, G. C. (1999). A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. USA: Havard University Press.
Van Dijk, T. (2006).Discourse and Mannipulation. Discourse and Society, 359-383
Vanheule.S. &Verhaeghe.P. (2009) .Identity Through Psychoanalytic Looking Glass.Theory & Psychology. , 391-411.
Versluys, E. (2007). The Notion of Identity in Discourse Analysis : Some Discourse Analytic Remarks. RASK; International tidsskrift for SprogogKommunikation-Odense, 89-99.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (2007).Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. Los Angeles: Sage
