Dedaic, Mirjana N. <br/><br/>
At War with Words. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (504 pages) 
 - Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] Series ;  v.10 .
 - Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Preface: Language as forms of death -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: A peace of word -- I. War discourse -- Liberal parasites and other creepers: Rush Limbaugh, Ken Hamblin, and the discursive construction of group identities -- Threat or business as usual? A multimodal, intertextual analysis of a political statement -- Deixis and distance: President Clinton's justification of intervention in Kosovo -- The language of atomic science and atomic conflict: Exploring the limits of symbolic representation -- The politics of discontent: A discourse analysis of texts of the Reform Movement in Ghana -- When guilt becomes a foreign country: Guilt and responsibility in Austrian postwar media representations of the Second World War -- Remembering and forgetting: The discursive construction of generational memories -- II. Language wars -- Attitudes towards linguistic purism in Croatia: Evaluating efforts at language reform -- Wars, politics, and language: A case study of the Okinawan language -- Language choice and cultural hegemony: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in Palau -- "Keep your language and I'll keep mine": Politics, language and the construction of identities in Cyprus -- Advertising for peace as political communication -- American warriors speaking American: The metapragmatics of performance in the nation state -- Conclusion: Word peace -- Name index -- Subject index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110897715 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages -- Political aspects.<br/>Language and culture.<br/>War and society.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P119.3 -- .A86 2003eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.44