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Metaphors We Kill By: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Spanish Mass Press Discourse on Jihadist Terrorist Resistance (2004/2017)

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TL53150

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Metaphors We Kill By: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Spanish Mass Press Discourse on Jihadist Terrorist Resistance (2004/2017)

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[Thesis]

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Lopez, Carlos Yebra

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Labanyi, Jo

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New York University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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399 p.

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Ph.D.

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New York University

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2020

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For the last 40 years a pivotal debate in Contemporary Peninsular Studies has been the so-called "Transition Problem" (Stanley), i.e., the question of how and to what extent Spain and/or Portugal moved during the 1970s from a corporatist dictatorship to a liberal democratic form of government, particularly in the face of a military putsch and several terrorist attacks threatening to undermine such progress. In those instances where this process has been discussed from a critical perspective (e.g., Morán, Monedero, Labrador), it is still assumed that, however incompletely guided by liberal democratic ideals, the Spanish post-transitional regime emerged and has consolidated itself despite terrorism. My project suggests the need to consider the ways in which the Spanish post-transitional regime has emerged through terrorism (Mythen and Walklate 394). To that effect, I use Critical Discourse Analysis to explore so-called "counterterrorism" as a new form of governmentality (Foucault) in post-2004 Spain that is highly influenced by the post-9/11 "War on Terror" frame (Mavelli, Jackson).  In this dissertation, I combine cognitive linguistics, critical terrorism studies, Islamic studies, political science, cultural studies and digital corpus linguistics to study the ideological representation of the notions of "democracy," "terrorism" and "jihad" (holy war) in the Spanish newspapers of record El Mundo and El País apropos the attacks of Madrid (2004) and Barcelona (2017).  I conclude that the misnomer "jihad" is best understood as the last in a series of propagandistic ideologemes disseminated by the Spanish mainstream press since the so-called "Spanish Transition to Democracy" (1975-82) in order to facilitate the State's governance of Spain not only despite terrorism, but also through it. This allows me to make a number of original contributions to the field of Contemporary Spanish Studies, including a renewed understanding of the concept of post-Franco Spanish "democracy" as a dead metaphor whose origins we have forgotten (rather than a factual truth or an otherwise pernicious myth); of the current discursive exploitation of terrorism in Spain; and of the extent to which the Spanish mainstream press coverage of the attacks in Madrid and Barcelona has been complicit in the Islamophobic reduction of "jihad" and "jihadism" to terrorist attacks led by Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

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Literature

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Modern language

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Political science

Lopez, Carlos Yebra

Labanyi, Jo

New York University

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