At War with Words /

At War with Words / / ed. by Mirjana N. Dedaic, Daniel N. Nelson.

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In 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. Sociolinguistics meets political science and communication studies in order to examine interdependence betw...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Benke, Gertraud,
Billig, Michael,
Britain, David,
Chilton, Paul A.,
Dedaić, Mirjana N.,
Dickason, Renée,
Karyolemou, Marilena,
Langston, Keith,
Matsumoto, Kazuko,
Nelson, Daniel N.,
Osam, Kweku,
Peterson, Mark Allen,
Peti-Stantić, Anita,
Pollak, Alexander,
Prosise, Theodore O.,
Ruud, Kathryn,
Scollon, Suzanne Wong,
Shinzato, Rumiko,
Tucker, Robert E.,
Wodak, Ruth,
HerausgeberIn:
Dedaic, Mirjana N.,
Nelson, Daniel N.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2003
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (479 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-vi
  • 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
  • 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
  • “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

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