The discursive protection of national interests
Indigenous erasure in Internet news revisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip T Duncan (0000-0003-0576-685X) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 357-381 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.11.3.03dun |
| OpenAlex | W2081791123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article combines methodology from the discourse-historical approach with critique from Indigenous feminism and postcolonial theory to examine the “update” feature of Internet news and its potential impact on knowledge. The notion of text becomes abstract as authors produce neo-texts labeled “updated,” leading to opacity in editorial processing. From a case study analyzing an Associated Press article discussing Pakistani responses to U.S. drone attacks, we observe negative (re)presentation of Indigenous peoples in Pakistan as authors use rhetorical strategies to achieve erasure in subsequent revisions. I interpret the authors as employing such strategies to legitimize United States’ power under the axiological guise of protecting “democracy.” The revisions silence tribal leaders’ and women’s voices, substituting elements that interdiscursively appeal to “terrorism” in a post-9/11 context. The authors dissolve the distinction between tribal peoples in Pakistan and “terrorists.” U.S. military aggression is linguistically realized as defensive, and Pakistani disapprobation framed as offensive attack
Aesthetics · Appeal · Citizen journalism · Context (archaeology · Covert · Democracy · Indigenous · Linguistics · Media studies · Offensive · Political science · Politics · Pornography · Power (physics · Presentation (obstetrics · Rhetorical question · Silence · Sociology · Terrorism · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics · History · Law
The European Union
Postcolonialism
Discourse
Introduction
Discourse and social change
Discourse and Discrimination
Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis
Recontextualizing European higher education policies
The internet's impact on international knowledge
My version of corpus linguistics
A Call to Arms at the End of History
The Handbook of Journalism Studies
Native Feminisms Engage American Studies
Strategies of Erasure
The “Old West” in the Middle East
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender
Gender, Sovereignty, Rights
Culture and Imperialism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |