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Dedaic, Mirjana N. and Daniel Nelson, eds. 2003. At War With Words. (Language, Power and Social Process 10). 479 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
conflict | discourse

Annotation

This collection of essays is divided into two parts, 'War Discourse' and 'Language Wars'.

Articles in this volume

Billig, M. Language as forms of death.
Dedaic, Mirjana N. Introduction: A peace of word.
Ruud, Kathryn. Liberal parasites and other creepers: Rush Limbaugh, Ken Hamblin, and the discursive construction of group identities.
Scollon, Suzanne. Threat or business as usual? A multimodal, intertextual analysis of a political statement.
Chilton, Paul. Deixis and distance: President Clinton's justification of intervention in Kosovo.
Prosise, Theodore O. and Robert E. Tucker. The language of atomic science and atomic conflict: Exploring the limits of symbolic representation.
Osam, Kweku. The politics of discontent: A discourse analysis of texts of the Reform Movement in Ghana.
Pollak, Alexander. When guilt becomes a foreign country: Guilt and responsibility in Austrian postwar media-representation of the Second World War.
Benke, Gertraud and Ruth Wodak. Remembering and forgetting: The discursive construction of generational memories.
Peti-Stantic, Anita and Keith Langston. Attitudes toward linguistic purism in Croatia: Evaluating efforts at language reform.
Shinzato, Rumiko. War, politics, and language: A case study of the Okinawan language.
Britain, David and Kazuko Matsumoto. Language choice and cultural hegemony: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in Palau.
Karyolemou, Marilena. ''Keep your language and I'll keep mine'': Politics, language, and the construction of identities in Cyprus.
Dickason, Renee. Advertising for peace as political communication.
Peterson, Mark Allen. American warriors speaking American: The metapragmatics of performance in the nation state.
Nelson, Daniel. Conclusion: Word peace.