Proximization -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Project overview -- 1.2 A brief history of proximization -- 1.3 Direct goals -- 1.4 Theoretical environment and theoretical implications as indirect goals -- 1.5 Chapter overview -- 2. Proximization as a (linguistic) concept -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Paul Chilton: From "representational proximising" in "geopolitical spaces" to Deictic Space Theo -- 2.2.1 The 2004 approach: 3-d positioning and representations of the Kosovo war -- 2.2.2 Discourse Space Theory or Deictic Space Theory? -- 2.3 Piotr Cap: Proximization for legitimization -- in search of quantifiable evidence -- 2.3.1 The conceptual and "qualitative" stage -- 2.3.2 The "qualitative-quantitative" stage -- 2.4 Christopher Hart: Proximization and/within coercion, predication, metaphor -- 2.5 Patricia Dunmire: Proximization across political genres -- 2.6 Other approaches -- 2.7 Approaches to proximization versus traditional accounts of deixis and perspective -- 2.8 Summary -- 3. Proximization and legitimization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Legitimization: A multi-level phenomenon -- 3.2.1 Perspectives from cognitive science, socio-political theory and social psychology -- 3.2.2 Perspectives from linguistic pragmatics, text linguistics and critical discourse studies -- 3.3 Legitimization through proximization, proximization for legitimization -- 3.3.1 A sample analysis -- 3.3.2 Maintaining the (AEI) legitimization: Changes in proximization strategies -- 3.3.3 Interventionist discourses -- 3.4 Beyond the war-on-terror -- 4. Conceptual structure of the (S)patial-(T)emporal-(A)xiological model of proximization -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Spatial proximization -- 4.2.1 Threat construal through the ODC characterization -- 4.2.2 Threat construal through the ODC impact speed.

4.2.3 Threat construal through the ODC impact consequences -- 4.3 Temporal proximization -- 4.3.1 "A September morning" -- 4.3.2 Towards more quantifiable markers -- 4.4 Axiological proximization -- 4.4.1 Axiological proximization with high and explicit impact probability -- 4.4.2 Axiological proximization with low(er) and implicit impact probability -- 4.5 Conclusions -- 5. The STA model and the 2001-2010 decade of the anti-terrorist discourse: Methodology and data -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Three frameworks of proximization -- 5.2.1 The spatial proximization framework -- 5.2.1.1 Category assignment of spatial proximization items -- 5.2.2 The temporal proximization framework -- 5.2.2.1 Category assignment of temporal proximization items -- 5.2.3 The axiological proximization framework -- 5.2.3.1 Category assignment of axiological proximization items -- 5.3 The corpus and the sub-corpora -- 5.4 Counts from the proximization frameworks -- 5.4.1 Counts from the spatial framework -- 5.4.2 Counts from the temporal framework -- 5.4.3 Counts from the axiological framework -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6. The STA model and the 2001-2010 decade of the anti-terrorist discourse: Discussion -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Period One (P1): September 11, 2001 - October 31, 2003 -- 6.2.1 Context -- 6.2.2 Response to context: "Direct threats" and "coming dangers" -- 6.3 Period Two (P2): November 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004 -- 6.3.1 Context -- 6.3.2 Response to context: Preventing growth of "evil values for export" -- 6.4 Period Three (P3): July 1, 2004 - January 19, 2009 -- 6.4.1 Context -- 6.4.2 Response to context: Back to (the vision of) the future -- 6.5 Period Four (P4): January 20, 2009 - December 31, 2010 -- 6.5.1 Context -- 6.5.2 Response to context: Threat routinized -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7. Towards further applications of proximization theory -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Health: Proximization in cancer prevention discourse -- 7.3 Environment: Proximization in climate change discourse -- 7.4 Modern technology: Proximization of cyber-threat -- 7.5 Proximization in political party representation: A view from Poland -- 7.6 Outlook -- References -- Index.

This book proposes a new theory ("proximization theory") in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of broadly consequential political/public policies, such as pre-emptive interventionist campaigns, is best accomplished by forced construals of virtual external threats encroaching upon the speaker and her audience's home territory. The construals, which proceed along spatial, temporal and axiological lines, are forced by strategic deployment of lexico-grammatical choices drawn from the three domains. This proposal is illustrated primarily in the in-depth analysis of the 2001-2010 US discourse of the War-on-Terror, and secondarily in a number of pilot studies pointing to a wide range of further applications (environmental discourse, health communication, cyber-threat discourse, political party-representation). The theory and the empirical focus of the book will appeal to researchers working on interdisciplinary projects in Pragmatics, Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies, as well as Journalism and Media Studies.

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