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Publication details [#51785]

Leeuwen, Theo van and David Machin. 2009. Toys as discourse: children's war toys and the war on terror. Critical Discourse Studies 6 (1) : 51–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's play | conflict | critical discourse analysis | society | value

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper on war toys as discourse, discusses how contemporary child war toys, worldwide distributed by mainly global American corporations, recruit children from their early years on into both the war on terror and the values of corporate capitalism.