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The discourse of Olympic security 2012 : London 2012
This paper uses a combination of CDA and CL to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigoâs (2008) conceptualisation of the âbanopticonâ, it address two questions: what distinctive
linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012; and, how is Olympic security realized as a discursive practice in these documents? Findings suggest that the documents indeed realized key banoptic features of the banopticon: exceptionalism, exclusion and prediction, as well as what we call âpedagogisationâ. Claims were made for the
exceptional scale of the Olympic events; predictive technologies were proposed to assess the
threat from terrorism; and documentary evidence suggests that access to Olympic venues
was being constituted to resemble transit through national boundarie