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Publication details [#45800]

Riskedahl, Diane. 2007. A sign of war: The strategic use of violent imagery in contemporary Lebanese political rhetoric. Language & Communication 27 (3) : 307–319.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cohesion | conflict | memory | political language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses the indexing of Lebanese civil strife (1975–1989) in contemporary Lebanese political discourse via the citation of historically contested ‘flashpoints’ in an attempt to bring about a cohesive collective memory.