1. Framing Discursive Illusions 1.1. Framing the Discourse of Illusion 1.2. Metaphor and the Discourse of Illusion 1.3. Recontextualisation 1.4. Categorisation 1.5. Public Discourse 1.5.1 Discourses of Terrorism 1.5.2 Media Discourse 1.5.3. Business Discourse 1.6. Summary 2. Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 2.1. Analytical Framework 2.2. History 2.2.1. Tools for the Analysis of History: Structured Immediacy 2.3. Linguistic and Semiotic Action 2.4. Social Impact 2.4.1. Tools for the Analysis of Social Impact: Membership categorization analysis 2.5. Textual and Contextual Resources for Employed Analysis 2.6. Data Set 2.7. Summary 3. Political Voices in Terrorism 3.1. Discourses of Terrorism 3.2. Good vs. Evil 3.3 Attack vs. Defence 3.4. Law vs. Lawless 3.4.1. Appeal to ‘Lawful’ Authority 3.5. Alliance vs. Opposition 4. Activist Voices in New Media 4.1. The Arab Spring 4.2. New Media in the Revolution 4.3. The Revolution 4.3.1. Revolutionary vs. Anti-Revolutionary 5. Corporate Voices in Climate-Change 5.1. The Discourses of the Environment 5.2. Corporate Social Responsibility 5.2.1. International Standards for CSR Reporting 5.2.2. CSR Practices in China, America and India 5.2.3. China, India, and America: Key Players in the Environmental Debate 5.3. Self-Promotion 5.4. Goodwill 5.5. Self-Justification 6. Conclusions and Implications 6.1. The Rise of Discursive Illusions 6.2. Findings 6.3 Us vs. Them 6.4. Implications
Biography
Aditi Bhatia is an Assistant Professor with the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong.
Informed by theories from critical discourse analysis and political science, Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse is an excellent addition for those who are interested in the critical study of contemporary public discourses, such as climate change, the ‘Arab Spring’ and social media. Employing a unique multi-perspective theoretical framework within the context of the discourse of illusion, this book will be highly relevant to discourse scholars as well as post-graduate students of language and media. Andrea Mayr, School of English, Queen’s University Belfast
