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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dedaić, Mirjana N., 1958-, Nelson, Daniel N., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
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.