ISBN:
9783110176490
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXIV, 479 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] 10
Parallel Title:
Print version At War with Words
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Politische Sprache
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Soziolinguistik
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Ideologie
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Feindbild
Abstract:
Biographical note: Mirjana N. Dedai? is affiliated with Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.Daniel N. Nelson is Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Abstract:
Review text: "At war with words contains many excellent essays, including important contributions by prominent scholars, but the wide range of material included means that the book will likely be remembered more for its individual parts than for their sum. Taken together, these books lay the foundation for research into questions that, unfortunately, seem more pressing with each passing day."Kerim Friedman in: Language in Society 4-2005
Abstract:
Main description: As we enter a new era of global conflict involving non-state actors, At War with Words offers a provocative perspective on the role of language in the genesis, conduct and consequence of mass violence. Internationally known contributors provide original data and new insights that illuminate roles of text and talk in creating identities of enemies, justifications for violence, and accompanying propaganda. Incorporating contexts from around the world, this collection's topics range from a radio talk show host's inflammatory rhetoric to the semantic poverty of the lexicon of mass destruction. Edited by a sociolinguist and a political scientist, At War with Words includes chapters by Michael Billig, Paul Chilton, Ruth Wodak and a dozen other prominent linguists and communications scholars.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Preface: Language as forms of death""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""Introduction: A peace of word""; ""I. War discourse""; ""Liberal parasites and other creepers: Rush Limbaugh, Ken Hamblin, and the discursive construction of group identities""; ""Threat or business as usual? A multimodal, intertextual analysis of a political statement""; ""Deixis and distance: President Clinton�s justification of intervention in Kosovo""; ""The language of atomic science and atomic conflict: Exploring the limits of symbolic representation""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The politics of discontent: A discourse analysis of texts of the Reform Movement in Ghana""""When guilt becomes a foreign country: Guilt and responsibility in Austrian postwar media representations of the Second World War""; ""Remembering and forgetting: The discursive construction of generational memories""; ""II. Language wars""; ""Attitudes towards linguistic purism in Croatia: Evaluating efforts at language reform""; ""Wars, politics, and language: A case study of the Okinawan language""; ""Language choice and cultural hegemony: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in Palau""
Description / Table of Contents:
""“Keep your language and I�ll keep mine�: Politics, language and the construction of identities in Cyprus""""Advertising for peace as political communication""; ""American warriors speaking American: The metapragmatics of performance in the nation state""; ""Conclusion: Word peace""; ""Name index""; ""Subject index""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction
DOI:
10.1515/9783110897715
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