Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence? / / Matthew Fyjis-Walker.

• Superior document: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• VerfasserIn: Fyjis-Walker, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; International Studies on Military Ethics ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 pages)

Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explain events as clearly as they might. Despite social, political and strategic incentives to use sanitised language, its use appears to undermine the democratic process and reduce public authorities’ freedoms, possibly emboldening adversaries and turning away potential partners.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Does the Model of Surrogacy Offer Value to the Analysis of Civil-Military Relations in the UK? -- 1 Clausewitz's Trinities Explored -- 2 Nation-Government Relations in UK, Clausewitzian? -- 3 Surrogacy an Alternate Model? -- 4 Or a Synthesis of the Two? -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- 1 Language, War and Power -- 2 Sanitised Language -- 3 Institutional Power -- 4 Political Myth -- 5 Public Opinion, Knowledge and Interest -- 6 British Media and Public Authorities -- 7 Trust, Transparency, Secrecy -- Chapter 3 Methodology -- 1 Research Objectives -- 2 Position of the Researcher -- 3 Armed Forces Covenant - The Experiment Framework -- 4 Research Design and Methods -- 5 Open-Source Data -- 6 Interviews -- 7 Limitations and Trustworthiness -- Chapter 4 Findings -- 1 Libya Introduction -- 2 Overarching Narrative -- 3 Regime Change -- 4 Civilian Casualties -- 5 Post-campaign -- 6 Iraq and Syria - Counter Daesh Coalition -- 7 Overarching Narrative -- 8 Killing to Success? -- 9 General Human Rights - Drones -- 10 Trends? -- Chapter 5 Discussion -- 1 Was It Ever Thus? -- 2 What Do These Comparisons Tell Us? -- 3 Does This Matter? -- 4 Reduced Trust -- 5 Lack of Understanding -- 6 So What? -- 7 What Next? -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.