Informatologia, Vol. 51 No. 1-2, 2018.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32914/i.51.1-2.4
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO 9/11 IN POLITICS: PATRIOTISM, FEAR AND LANGUAGE ISSUES
Kristina Kočan Šalamon
; University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Abstract
The paper with the title “Public Response to 9/11 in Politics: Patriotism, Fear and Language Issues” examines the immediate responses that emerged in American political administration after the terrorist attacks on 11 September, 2001 in New York City and Washington, D.C. Moreover, the paper analyzes the speech “We Have Seen the State of Our Union” given before the Congress on September 20, 2001, by the former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, showing the prevalent manner of the rhetoric of the then current government administration. Seeking to explain the rhetoric of the politicians after 9/11, the analysis explores several parameters. This kind of rhetoric addressed the issues connected to 9/11, and employed a great deal of patriotism-related words as well as a language that could help instigate fear and paranoia in Americans and their culture.
Keywords
events of 9/11, attacks; public response; politics; media; trauma; crisis
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203303
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Publication date:
30.6.2018.
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