Publications

Publication details [#14622]

Schiffrin, Deborah. 2001. Language and public memorial: 'America's concentration camps'. Discourse & Society 12 (4) : 505–534.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

euphemism | history | narrative

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article deals with (the role of linguists in) conflictual language (in this case, the problematic title of a WWII exhibit), their resolution and the function of referring terms in public memorial.