At war with words /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2003.
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Colección: | Language, power, and social process ;
10. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface : language as forms of death / Michael Billig
- Introduction : a peace of word / Mirjana N. Dedaić
- Liberal parasites and other creepers : Rush Limbaugh, Ken Hamblin, and the discursive construction of group identities / Kathryn Ruud
- Threat or business as usual? : a multimodal, intertextual analysis of a political statement / Suzanne Wong Scollon
- Deixis and distance : President Clinton's justification of intervention in Kosovo / Paul A. Chilton
- The language of atomic science and atomic conflict : exploring the limits of symbolic representation / Robert E. Tucker and Theodore O. Prosise
- The politics of discontent : a discourse analysis of texts of the reform movement in Ghana / Kweku Osam
- When guilt becomes a foreign country : guilt and responsibility in Austrian postwar media-representation of the second World War / Alexander Pollak
- Remembering and forgetting : the discursive construction of generational memories / Gretraud Benke and Ruth Wodak
- Attitudes towards linguistic purism in Croatia : evaluating efforts at language reform / Keith Langston and Anita Peti-Stantić
- Wars, politics, and language : a case study of the Okinawan language / Rumiko Shinzato
- Language choice and cultural hegemony : linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in Palau / Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain
- "Keep your language and I'll keep mine" : politics, language, and the construction of identities in Cyprus / Marilena Karyolemou
- Advertising for peace as political communication / Renée Dickason
- American warriors speaking American : the metapragmatics of performance in the nation state / Mark Allen Peterson
- Conclusion : word peace / Daniel N. Nelson.