Life and Death in a Time of Terror: A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Editorials Concerning 9/11
Authors: Howard R. Pollioр, Tolya Stoitsova, Anne Snellen. Language: English

     The present edition is a psycholinguistic study of how 270 editorials from five different newspapers sought to make sense of an initially incomprehensible set of events: the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and a United Airlines jet flying over a field somewhere in rural Pennsylvania. What made this a pressing task in 2001 was that not only did these attacks produce some 3000 deaths, the destruction of two of America’s largest buildings and the use of three commercial aircraft as deadly weapons, they also loose an atmosphere of dread that spread rapidly from Liberty Street Manhattan to Main Street USA, and beyond.

Table of contents

Preface

Part I: Remember the Ordinary, If You Can

Chapter 1. A Break in Time, the Loss o f Place

Chapter 2. Taking the Measure: An Analysis of Method and Some Initial Findings

Part II: Shades of Meaning

Chapter 3. America Enduring: The New York Times (USA) 

Chapter 4. The Other Twilight Struggle: The Washington Post (USA)

Chapter 5. People With Bombs In Their Heads: Sega (Bulgaria)

Chapter 6. War With A Shadow: Izvestia (Russia) 

Chapter 7. The Hands On The Clock Have Barely Moved: The Times o f London (UK)

Part III: Language Matters

Chapter 8. Themes and Metaphors: Comparisons Among Newspapers

Chapter 9. History as Memory, Narrative, and Heuristic

Part IV: Making History

Chapter 10. The Anniversary Editorials

Chapter 11. Then and Now: Reflections and Implications

References

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