Shocked and awed : how the war on terror and Jihad have changed the English language /

Far more than just a military conflict, the 'War on Terror' has been a struggle over values and meanings, a desperate contest for hearts and minds in which language has become the battlefield. In this highly original book, Fred Halliday takes us on a tour of this new war-zone, its artiller...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halliday, Fred
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : I.B. Tauris & Co., 2010.
Temas:
2001-2009
Terrorism > Dictionaries.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Language.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009 > Langage.
Language: history & general works.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Terrorism.
Language and languages
Terrorism
dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Far more than just a military conflict, the 'War on Terror' has been a struggle over values and meanings, a desperate contest for hearts and minds in which language has become the battlefield. In this highly original book, Fred Halliday takes us on a tour of this new war-zone, its artillery and trenches, minefields and booby-traps. Drawing on years of painstaking collation, Halliday shows how the 'War on Terror' has brought us not just new words, such as 'Gitmo', and new imports, such as 'jihad', but also new ways of using existing language, such as 'extraordinary rendition'. Scanning the pock.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (354 pages)
ISBN:9780857718754
0857718754

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