Discourse and Crisis

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. Discourse in crisis, crisis in discourse (by De Rycker, Antoon); 4. 'Crisis' in Modernity: A sign of the times between decisive change and potential irreversibility (by Chalozin-Dovrat, Lin); 5. Part I: Organizational discourse; 6. Serving a high-risk warrant: The role of context in police crisis negotiations (by Royce, Terry D.); 7. Misalignments in Finnish emergency call openings: Legitimacy, asymmetries and multi-tasking as interactional contests (by Vaajala, Tiia); 8. Collaboration in crisis: Pursuing perception through multiple descriptions (how friendly vehicles became damn rocket launchers) (by Nevile, Maurice); 9. Part II: Political discourse; 10. The political use of a national crisis: Bush's legitimation of the USA Freedom Corps in the wake of September 11 (by Sandaran, Shanti C.); 11. Reflections in the eyes of a dying tiger: Looking back on Ireland's 1987 economic crisis (by O'Rourke, Brendan K.); 12. Local community leaders' constructions of women's interests and needs: Impeding resolution of Kenya's development crisis (by Ndambuki, Jacinta); 13. The financial crisis hits hard: The impact of emerging crisis on discursive strategies and linguistic devices in EU Financial Stability Reviews (2004-2010) (by Denti, Olga); 14. Part III: Media discourse; 15. Red or Yellow, Peace or War: Agonism and antagonism in online discussion during the 2010 political unrest in Thailand (by Jimarkon, Pattamawan); 16. The 2008 urban riots in Greece: Differential representations of a police shooting incident (by Dimitris Kitis, E.); 17. Benefit or burden?: Press representation of immigrant workers during the Spanish economic recession (by Alonso Belmonte, Isabel); 18. Mexico City and the H1N1 health crisis: The discursive interconnectedness of viruses, murders, policy fiascos and tumbling pesos (by Matus-Mendoza, Mariadelaluz); 19. Polarization in the media representation of terrorism crises: Transitivity and lexical choices in Malaysia's leading English dailies (by Lean, Mei Li); 20. Epilogue; 21. A paradoxical approach to crisis (by Priestley, Jamie); 22. Notes on contributors; 23. Name index; 24. Subject index