Publications

Publication details [#56520]

Donohue, William A. 2012. The Identity Trap: The Language of Genocide. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 31 (1) : 13–29.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | identity negotiation | language use | racism | radio

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Using two broadcasts from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, this paper engenders a framework for reflecting upon how language themes dispersed in radio broadcasts, start to deteriorate into the reification of a culture that permits and even fosters classification and dehumanization.