Gasping for war drama: the “about to die moment” of the Osama bin Laden assassination

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Marnie Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Osama Bin Laden

SPEECH ACTS IN BARACK OBAMA SPEECH’S IN ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Atiya Mahmud Hana
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
White House ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Primary Data Source ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Osama Bin Laden ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
Directive Speech

  This study aims to observe and describe the use of speech acts by Barack Obama when he announced the death of Osama bin Laden. The writer focuses on illocutionary acts used by Barack Obama. The primary data source is the transcript of Barack Obama’s speech at White House on May 1st, 2011 after the death of Osama bin Laden. The types of illocutionary acts are observed by the writer according to Searle’s Taxonomy of Illocutionary Act. They are representatives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. The result of the study shows that representatives are frequetnly used by Obama in his speech. Representatives are used in 54 utterances (74%); Commissives are used in 11 utterances (15%); Expressives are used in 7 utterances (11%). Barack Obama used none both directive speech acts and declaration speech acts. Representatives are frequently used in Barack Obama speech because the purpose of the speech is to announce the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The evidence is that most utterances in the transcipt use statements, descriptions, and reports.   

Political Competition, Partisanship and Interpersonal Trust in Electoral Democracies

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan E. Carlin ◽  
Gregory J. Love
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Minimal Group ◽  
System A ◽  
The Social ◽  
Osama Bin Laden

How does democratic politics inform the interdisciplinary debate on the evolution of human co-operation and the social preferences (for example, trust, altruism and reciprocity) that support it? This article advances a theory of partisan trust discrimination in electoral democracies based on social identity, cognitive heuristics and interparty competition. Evidence from behavioral experiments in eight democracies show ‘trust gaps’ between co- and rival partisans are ubiquitous, and larger than trust gaps based on the social identities that undergird the party system. A natural experiment found that partisan trust gaps in the United States disappeared immediately following the killing of Osama bin Laden. But observational data indicate that partisan trust gaps track with perceptions of party polarization in all eight cases. Finally, the effects of partisanship on trust outstrip minimal group treatments, yet minimal-group effects are on par with the effects of most treatments for ascriptive characteristics in the literature. In sum, these findings suggest political competition dramatically shapes the salience of partisanship in interpersonal trust, the foundation of co-operation.

Concept Development in Sociology: A Comment on Steve Fuller's, ‘Will Sociology find some New Concepts before the US finds Osama bin Laden?’

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
Stephen Vertigans ◽  
Philip Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Concept Development ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Good Advice ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Osama Bin Laden

An interesting issue is raised by Steve Fuller's ‘Will Sociology Find Some New Concepts’ in the previous issue of this journal. This is the extent to which the research programmes of sociologists are or should be influenced by particular, significant events. If this is a call for scientific open-mindedness in the interpretation of violent forms of terrorism and their causes, then it is good advice for us all. However, there is a danger that the interpretation of ‘significance’ will be shaped by the specific reception of events in the relatively rich nations, thus paradoxically tying sociological work to the vagaries of contemporary politics in similar ways to some of those contributions that Fuller rightly criticises. The main issue here we suggest, is not that of failing to see that real world events can confound our expectations, but of understanding and explaining events of many different kinds within ongoing research programmes, as this is what constitutes the real value of the sociological contribution to knowledge.

Discourse of global governance

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-246
Author(s):  
Annita Lazar ◽  
Michelle M. Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Osama Bin Laden ◽  
Primary Focus

This article is based on the view that in the post-Cold War period, a US-defined New World Order discourse has been in formation. Adopting a critical discourse analytical perspective, the paper examines the deployment of American liberal democratic political ideology, which forms the basis of the New World Order discourse. American liberal democracy is construed vis--vis the articulation of illiberal global threats (namely, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein); through international consensus-building based on universalized American principles of freedom and democracy; and through Americas self-election to global leadership. While the primary focus of the study is on the speeches of President George W. Bush since the 11 September 2001 attacks, the analysis also includes speeches by the former post-Cold War presidents, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, in the context of earlier historic events. An intertextual analysis of the speeches shows the hegemonic form(ul)ation of American liberal democratic internationalism in the post-Cold War environment.

scholarly journals Guddommelig viden og menneskelig. Sayyid Qutb og det ansvarlige menneske

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Jean Butler
Keyword(s):  
Sayyid Qutb ◽  
Osama Bin Laden

Sayyid Qutb Ibrahîm Husayn Shâdhilî (d. 1966) betragtes gerne som én af den moderne islamismes åndelige fædre alene ud fra den betragtning, at det er i forlængelse af hans ideologiske indflydelse, at flere yderligtgående, islamistiske bevægelser ser dagens lys i 1970’ernes og 80’ernes Mellemøsten. Det er bevægelser hvis seneste, og givetvis mest ekstreme, udløber må siges at være al-Qâ‘ida-netværket under Osama bin Laden. Primært må Qutb dog anses for at være en forfatter, hvis meget anderledes fortolkning af Koranen – som en tekst der taler direkte til sin læser – har haft enorm indflydelse på den måde, hvorpå muslimer verden over læser Koranen i dag. Derfor er Qutb, og de tanker han gjorde sig om det menneskelige, det guddommelige, og det onde, også i høj grad relevant for os i dag.

scholarly journals Ziguezague: Cristiane Mesquita convida Deborah de Paula Souza

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Cristiane Mesquita ◽  
Deborah De Paula Souza
Keyword(s):  
Osama Bin Laden

Em nosso contemporâneo, a aparência assume uma centralidade na constituição subjetiva, antes nunca vista na história da humanidade. A consolidação do corpo como locus subjetivo da busca incessante do eu, faz do cenário corporal palco de intervenções das mais radicais, em prol da materialização de uma sensação de si. A série “PROCURO- ME” − trabalho da poeta e artista visual Lenora de Barros1 − começou em 1994, a partir de uma brincadeira numa máquina de retratos, daquelas que permitem estudos de diferentes cortes de cabelo. Em 2001, inspirada pela proliferação de imagens de Osama Bin Laden com a legenda “PROCURA-SE”, Lenora iniciou uma composição fotográfica, na qual estampou uma espécie de multiplicação de si mesma, em cartazes lambe-lambe intitulados “PROCURO-ME” (...)

scholarly journals Pakistan-United States Diplomatic Relations: Analytical Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Rahim , Dr. Adil Zaman Kasi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Osama Bin Laden ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

This research paper discusses the reciprocal relationship of Pakistan and United States. Pakistan and United States are engaged in transactional relationship for gaining the credibility of through securing their national interest which bought distractive approaches in bilateral relationship. Historically, Pakistan-United States have been supporting each other against the terrorism as had strong diplomatic alignment in countering terrorism, extremism and fundamentalism. The distrust prevailed and occupied which dismantle the international move to dismantle the terror. The uncertainty of relationship causes a cataclysmic events which provides distrust as well as dismantle the international coalition for the peace establishment. This paper includes the diplomatic ties between Pakistan and United States specially post 9/11. The diplomatic successful alignment for the international peace brought effective orientation thereafter the impact factors of diverse misunderstanding which were mismanaged diplomatically as cases of Raymond Davis, Salala Check post, nuclear proliferation, Osama Bin Laden, Drone Attacks, and Memogate. Their diplopic move is essential to be revamped for the social, economic and political factors which sources the regional peace of South and Central Asia.  

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