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Volume 2 of Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 continues and complements the discussion of the event undertaken in the first part of the two-volume publication (2014). This time, the focus is put on language and discourse. The contributions here volume explore the construction of ""Us"" and ""Them"" in a variety of pre- and post-9/11 texts, mainly from the perspectives of (political) discourse analysis and translation studies. The book shows how language in use reflects and retells the tragic event and how it (re-)constructs its actors, bringing us closer to understanding the roots and long-term consequences of 9/11. The volume is by no means exhaustive of the topic, but demonstrates its complexity and continuing relevance for today's world.

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""This is a very interesting volume to understand how 9/11 has shaped political and social discourses. Looking not only at the language used by politicians, but also at other social actors, such as the media or legal documents can help us understand the dialogic relation that is established between discourse and society and how the influence between them works both ways. The studies included in the volume will be of use to anyone interested in political discourse or the socio-cultural construction of discourses in the US before and after 9/11.""—Dr Laura Filardo Llamas, University of Valladolid, Spain

This is a very interesting volume to understand how 9/11 has shaped political and social discourses. Looking not only at the language used by politicians, but also at other social actors, such as the media or legal documents can help us understand the dialogic relation that is established between discourse and society and how the influence between them works both ways. The studies included in the volume will be of use to anyone interested in political discourse or the socio-cultural construction of discourses in the US before and after 9/11. -Dr Laura Filardo Llamas, University of Valladolid, Spain

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Anna Gonerko-Frej, PhD, is the Head of the English Department at Szczecin University, Poland. She has created a programme for teaching cultural studies in a state secondary English-medium school in Szczecin and has been supervising it for the last 10 years. She holds a diploma of postgraduate studies in British Studies from Ruskin College, Oxford University, and Methodology from Warsaw University, Poland, and obtained a doctorate degree from Greifswald University, Germany. Her professional interests focus mainly on English as a lingua franca, linguistic imperialism, language policy, World Englishes, ELT methodology, intercultural education, material writing, British studies, and language and identity.Małgorzata Sokół, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Szczecin University, Poland. Her major fields of professional interest include social media, computer-mediated communication and computer-mediated discourse analysis, professional and institutional discourse analysis, genre theory, and corpus linguistics. She has researched into aspects of digital genre development and evolution in professional (specialist) and organisational communication, and investigated patterns of identity construction and evaluative language use in digital genres. She edited Perspectives on Othering and Stereotyping: Language, Literature, Culture (2010), co-edited Us and Them – Them and Us: Constructions of the Other in Cultural Stereotypes (2011), and authored Discoursal Construction of Academic Identity in Cyberspace: The Example of An E-Seminar (2012).

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