Warring With Words

Author : Mirjana N. Dedaic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110897717
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At War with Words written by Mirjana N. Dedaic and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new era of global conflict involving non-state actors, At War with Words offers a provocative perspective on the role of language in the genesis, conduct and consequence of mass violence. Sociolinguistics meets political science and communication studies in order to examine interdependence between armed conflict and language. As phenomena attributed only to humans, both armed conflict and language are visible on two axes: language as war discourse, and language as a social policy subject to change by the victorious. In this unique volume, internationally known contributors provide original data and new insights that illuminate roles of text and talk in creating identities of enemies, justifications for violence, and accompanying propaganda. Incorporating contexts from around the world, this collection's topics range from a radio talk show hosts' inflammatory rhetoric to the semantic poverty of the lexicon of mass destruction. The first eight chapters discuss war texts. How does language serve as a vehicle to incite, justify, and resolve an armed conflict? Case studies from the US to China, and from Austria to Ghana detail such a progression to, through, and from war. The book's second part reflects the understanding of language as a symbol of power achieved by a victorious side in war. Five chapters discuss cases from Okinawa, Croatia, Cyprus, Palau, and Northern Ireland. Edited by a sociolinguist and a political scientist, At War with Words includes chapters by Michael Billig, Paul Chilton, Ruth Wodak and a dozen other prominent linguists and communications scholars. This book will be of interest to linguists, media scholars and political scientists, but is also accessible to any reader interested in language and war. Teachers will find particular chapters useful as course material in discourse analysis, language policy, war and peace studies, conflict resolution, mass communication, and other related disciplines.

Author : Michael Hanne
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317689194
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warring with Words written by Michael Hanne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics they have studied are: competing metaphors for the state or nation which have been coined over the centuries in diverse cultures; the frequency with which communal and international conflicts are generated, at least in part, by the clashing religious and historical narratives held by opposing groups; the cognitive short-cuts employing metaphor by which citizens make sense of politics; the need for political candidates to project a convincing self-narrative; the extent to which the metaphors used to formulate social issues determine the policies which will be developed to resolve them; the failure of narratives around the security of the nation to take account of the individual experiences of women and children. This volume is the first in which eminent scholars from disciplines as diverse as social psychology, anthropology, political theory, international relations, feminist political science, and media studies, have sought to integrate the narrative and the metaphor perspectives on politics. It will appeal to any scholar interested in the many ways in which narrative and metaphor function in combination as cognitive and rhetorical instruments in discourse around politics.

Author : Brian Murdoch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134969058
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Songs and Warring Words written by Brian Murdoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.

Author : Urszula Clark
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Words written by Urszula Clark and published by Brill. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about the nature of literacy and literacy practices have been conducted extensively over the years. Here, the author underlines the ideological character of such debates showing their deep historical roots. She also undertakes a comparison with other major English-speaking countries, most notably Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War of Words written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul David Tripp
Publisher : Resources for Changing Lives
ISBN 13 : 9780875526041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War of Words written by Paul David Tripp and published by Resources for Changing Lives. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Tripp identifies the attitudes and assumptions behind our words and shows how to develop God-honoring communication.

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ISBN 13 : 9781848725683
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warring with Words written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics they have studied are: --competing metaphors for the state or nation which have been coined over the centuries in diverse cultures; --the frequency with which communal and international conflicts are generated, at least in part, by the clashing religious and historical narratives held by opposing groups; --the cognitive short-cuts employing metaphor by which citizens make sense of politics; --the need for political candidates to project a convincing self-narrative; --the extent to which the metaphors used to formulate social issues determine the policies which will be developed to resolve them; --the failure of narratives around the security of the nation to take account of the individual experiences of women and children. This volume is the first in which eminent scholars from disciplines as diverse as social psychology, anthropology, political theory, international relations, feminist political science, and media studies, have sought to integrate the narrative and the metaphor perspectives on politics. Michael Hanne founded the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Auckland in 1995 and directed it until 2010. William D. Crano is Oskamp Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Claremont Graduate University. Jeffery Scott Mio is the director of the M.S. in Psychology Program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Publisher's note.

Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521546560
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A War of Words written by Yasir Suleiman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suleiman's book considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage and one spoken by the majority of those in the Middle East in various dialects, Arabic is a particularly appropriate vehicle for such an investigation. It is also a penetrating device for exploring the conflicts of the Middle East.'This is a well-crafted, well organized, and eloquent book. 'Karin Ryding, Georgetown University

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395107
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning written by Chris Hedges and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: “It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.” Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies—corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.

Author : R. V. Young
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At War with the Word written by R. V. Young and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At War with the Word seeks to transcend the politicization of literature and calls for a greater recognition of literature's role in developing the intellect and imagination of students."--BOOK JACKET.