Investigating violence in language
An introduction
Article outline
- 1.Why pairing violence and language?
- 2.Violence and the limits of signification
- 3.Violence and conflict as loci of theorization about language
- 4.Violence and some tenets of pragmatics
- 5.The general approach
- 6.Chapters on language and violence
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Notes
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References
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