Proximization -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Project overview -- 1.2 A brief history of proximization -- 1.3 Direct goals -- 1.4 Theoretical environment and theoretical implications as indirect goals -- 1.5 Chapter overview -- 2. Proximization as a (linguistic) concept -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Paul Chilton: From "representational proximising" in "geopolitical spaces" to Deictic Space Theo -- 2.2.1 The 2004 approach: 3-d positioning and representations of the Kosovo war -- 2.2.2 Discourse Space Theory or Deictic Space Theory? -- 2.3 Piotr Cap: Proximization for legitimization -- in search of quantifiable evidence -- 2.3.1 The conceptual and "qualitative" stage -- 2.3.2 The "qualitative-quantitative" stage -- 2.4 Christopher Hart: Proximization and/within coercion, predication, metaphor -- 2.5 Patricia Dunmire: Proximization across political genres -- 2.6 Other approaches -- 2.7 Approaches to proximization versus traditional accounts of deixis and perspective -- 2.8 Summary -- 3. Proximization and legitimization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Legitimization: A multi-level phenomenon -- 3.2.1 Perspectives from cognitive science, socio-political theory and social psychology -- 3.2.2 Perspectives from linguistic pragmatics, text linguistics and critical discourse studies -- 3.3 Legitimization through proximization, proximization for legitimization -- 3.3.1 A sample analysis -- 3.3.2 Maintaining the (AEI) legitimization: Changes in proximization strategies -- 3.3.3 Interventionist discourses -- 3.4 Beyond the war-on-terror -- 4. Conceptual structure of the (S)patial-(T)emporal-(A)xiological model of proximization -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Spatial proximization -- 4.2.1 Threat construal through the ODC characterization -- 4.2.2 Threat construal through the ODC impact speed.

4.2.3 Threat construal through the ODC impact consequences -- 4.3 Temporal proximization -- 4.3.1 "A September morning" -- 4.3.2 Towards more quantifiable markers -- 4.4 Axiological proximization -- 4.4.1 Axiological proximization with high and explicit impact probability -- 4.4.2 Axiological proximization with low(er) and implicit impact probability -- 4.5 Conclusions -- 5. The STA model and the 2001-2010 decade of the anti-terrorist discourse: Methodology and data -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Three frameworks of proximization -- 5.2.1 The spatial proximization framework -- 5.2.1.1 Category assignment of spatial proximization items -- 5.2.2 The temporal proximization framework -- 5.2.2.1 Category assignment of temporal proximization items -- 5.2.3 The axiological proximization framework -- 5.2.3.1 Category assignment of axiological proximization items -- 5.3 The corpus and the sub-corpora -- 5.4 Counts from the proximization frameworks -- 5.4.1 Counts from the spatial framework -- 5.4.2 Counts from the temporal framework -- 5.4.3 Counts from the axiological framework -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6. The STA model and the 2001-2010 decade of the anti-terrorist discourse: Discussion -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Period One (P1): September 11, 2001 - October 31, 2003 -- 6.2.1 Context -- 6.2.2 Response to context: "Direct threats" and "coming dangers" -- 6.3 Period Two (P2): November 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004 -- 6.3.1 Context -- 6.3.2 Response to context: Preventing growth of "evil values for export" -- 6.4 Period Three (P3): July 1, 2004 - January 19, 2009 -- 6.4.1 Context -- 6.4.2 Response to context: Back to (the vision of) the future -- 6.5 Period Four (P4): January 20, 2009 - December 31, 2010 -- 6.5.1 Context -- 6.5.2 Response to context: Threat routinized -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7. Towards further applications of proximization theory -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Health: Proximization in cancer prevention discourse -- 7.3 Environment: Proximization in climate change discourse -- 7.4 Modern technology: Proximization of cyber-threat -- 7.5 Proximization in political party representation: A view from Poland -- 7.6 Outlook -- References -- Index.