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Rhetoric of Insecurity: The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts

Rhetoric of Insecurity: The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts

Baines, Victoria

Hardcover

Series: Law, Language and Communication

General ReferenceGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0367463075
ISBN13: 9780367463076
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 14 2021
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years.

The work considers the history of security rhetoric in a number of distinct but related contexts, including the United States' security strategy, the war on Big Tech, and current concerns such as cybersecurity. Focusing on the language of security discourse, it draws common threads from the ancient world to the present day and the near future. The book grounds recent comparisons of Donald Trump to the Emperor Nero in a linguistic evidence base. It examines the potential impact on society of policy-makers' emphasis on the novelty of cybercrime, their likening of the internet to the Wild West, and their claims that criminals have gone dark. It questions governments' descriptions of technology companies in words normally reserved for terrorists, and asks who might benefit.

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