Iraqi Perspectives Project. Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents. Volume 1 (Redacted)

Woods, Kevin M.; Lacey, James

doi:10.21236/ada479364

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“…As part of a massive document archive project, the Department of Defense commissioned the translation of military letters and other documents from Arabic into English. This publically available data set, part of the Iraqi Perspectives Project, includes extended discussions about the translation procedures (Woods, 2007).…”

Section: Study 5: Natural Written Language Use In Iraqi Military Lettersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pronoun Use Reflects Standings in Social Hierarchies

Kacewicz

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Davis

et al. 2013

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Five studies explored the ways relative rank is revealed among individuals in small groups through their natural use of pronouns. In Experiment 1, four-person groups worked on a decision-making task with randomly assigned leadership status. In Studies 2 and 3, two-person groups either worked on a task or chatted informally in a get-to-know-you session. Study 4 was a naturalistic study of incoming and outgoing e-mail of 9 participants who provided information on their correspondents’ relative status. The last study examined 40 letters written by soldiers in the regime of Saddam Hussein. Computerized text analyses across the five studies found that people with higher status consistently used fewer first-person singular, and more first-person plural and second-person singular pronouns. Natural language use during group interaction suggests that status is associated with attentional biases, such that higher rank is linked with other-focus whereas lower rank is linked with self-focus.

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Section: Study 5: Natural Written Language Use In Iraqi Military Lettersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pronoun Use Reflects Standings in Social Hierarchies

Kacewicz

Pennebaker

Davis

et al. 2013

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

416

323

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“…His description of the 'civilian vehicles, white pick-up trucks [which] come at us almost on suicide missions' is not as far-fetched as it first seems (Greg Kelly reflects, 2010). For instance, after the fall of Baghdad large quantities of regime documents were captured and analysed which showed the pre-war efforts of the Saddam Fedayeen to develop unconventional capabilities involving car bombs and suicide vests (Woods & Lacey, 2007). Yet in other parts of the city residents were attempting to go about their affairs while unaware of the depth of the American penetration (The thunder run, 2008;Zucchino, 2004a).…”

Section: The Wars That Weren't?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A tale of two statues: Contemporary conflict reporting constraints and the Battle of Baghdad

Ellmers¹

2018

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Although television conflict reporting has usually been limited by risks to journalists’ safety, the death throes of Baathist Iraq in April 2003 provided viewers with a unique opportunity to vicariously witness the fall of a large modern city. Yet if the iconic moment of the Second Gulf War came when Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square was toppled, then it was at the expense of another image event which unfolded earlier a short distance away. Because the US military’s violent destruction of the equestrian statue close to the ‘Hands of Victory’ monument better encapsulates the conflict than the sterile bloodless ‘cakewalk’ description it’s usually labelled with. This article shows how the tale of these two statues is also in some ways the tale of two Fox News correspondents, and how an alienation from military service conditions and methods can leave reporters and their audiences with no sense of what the participants on their screens endured in order to reach Baghdad; or what they had also inflicted upon others. In retrospect, the circumstances which allowed one Fox reporter to provide the world with what might have been its first taste of live, unedited combat footage seem more like an accidental success than the result of systemic best practices. Especially when this network and even its most credible host remain committed to ensuring a particular partisan perspective dominates all their broadcasts.

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