{"title":"Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse","authors":"K. Li, Xi-qi Gong","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0093","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the surge of global health threats, “health security” constitutes a large proportion of international security. Drawing on proximization theory, the study aims to reveal how proximization serves to legitimize health emergency measures based on a case study of U.S. policies on travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The study annotated and counted the lexico-grammatical items identified as proximization triggers in terms of space, time, and axiology based on the data from a corpus of approximately 60,237 tokens. An attempt is then made for a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse, indicating that proximization facilitates the legitimization of travel restrictions through the construction of threats, both synchronically and diachronically. Furthermore, the results suggest that the proximization approach is suited to the analysis of health security discourse. Notably, this study may shed new light on research into state politics, crisis management, and international security.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":"42 1","pages":"713 - 734"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Text & Talk","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0093","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract With the surge of global health threats, “health security” constitutes a large proportion of international security. Drawing on proximization theory, the study aims to reveal how proximization serves to legitimize health emergency measures based on a case study of U.S. policies on travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The study annotated and counted the lexico-grammatical items identified as proximization triggers in terms of space, time, and axiology based on the data from a corpus of approximately 60,237 tokens. An attempt is then made for a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse, indicating that proximization facilitates the legitimization of travel restrictions through the construction of threats, both synchronically and diachronically. Furthermore, the results suggest that the proximization approach is suited to the analysis of health security discourse. Notably, this study may shed new light on research into state politics, crisis management, and international security.
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Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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