
'Writing the war on terrorism' examines the public language of the war on terrorism, and the way that rhetoric has been used to justify the global counter-terrorism offensive as a response to 9/11. It discusses how language has been used to deliberately manipulate public anxiety...

Introduction: Language and politics; 1. Analysing the language of counter-terrorism; 2. Writing September 11, 2001; 3. Writing identity: Evil terrorists and good Americans; 4. Writing threat and danger; 5. Writing the good (new) war on terrorism; 6.