Discourses of War and Peace

Zusatztext Discourses of war and peace gives an expert view and makes a tangible contribution to the practical appreciation of how language is used to enable war, and the ways in which it can be used to enable peace, and is recommended reading to anyone interested in this subject. Informationen zum Autor Adam Hodges is an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of The 'War on Terror' Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality (2011), co-editor with Chad Nilep of Discourse, War and Terrorism (2007), and author of several scholarly articles and book chapters that examine American political discourse. Klappentext Discourses of War and Peace examines specific contexts around the globe in which discourse operates in the service of war and to build alternative visions of peace. Zusammenfassung Discourses of War and Peace examines specific contexts around the globe in which discourse operates in the service of war and to build alternative visions of peace.

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• Authors: Adam Hodges, Adam (A.w. Mellon Postdoctoral Humanities Hodges
• Assisted by: Adam Hodges (Editor), Adam (A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Humanities Fellow Hodges (Editor), Hodges Adam (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199937271
• ISBN: 978-0-19-993727-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, HISTORY / Military / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics