Discourses of war and peace
Hodges, AdamContributor
This title examines specific contexts around the globe in which discourse operates in the service of war and to build alternative visions of peace. Contributors, who come from backgrounds in linguistics, anthropology, rhetoric, and communication studies, draw from discourse analytic and/or ethnographic methods to examine the discourse used by politicians and social actors in societies that include the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Morocco, Ireland, the Palestinian territories, and Japan.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This title examines specific contexts around the globe in which discourse operates in the service of war and to build alternative visions of peace. Contributors, who come from backgrounds in linguistics, anthropology, rhetoric, and communication studies, draw from discourse analytic and/or ethnographic methods to examine the discourse used by politicians and social actors in societies that include the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Morocco, Ireland, the Palestinian territories, and Japan.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).
War, discourse, and peace / Adam Hodges -- Justifying War: 'New World Coming': Narratives of the Future in U.S. Post-Cold War National Security Discourse / Patricia Dunmire -- The Generic U.S. Presidential War Narrative: Justifying Military Force and Imagining the Nation / Adam Hodges -- The Discursive Battlefield of the "War on Terror": Enabling Strategies for Garnering Public Support in the Rhetoric of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden / Anna Podvornaia -- World of the Impolitic: A Critical Study of the British WMD Dossier / Aditi Bhatia -- Negotiating Military Deployment: Culture Clash: Framing Peacekeeping and its Role in a Canadian Context / Janis Goldie -- Promising without speaking: military realignment and political promising in japan / Chad Nilep -- Responding to Armed Conflict: "Everyone Has Their Particular Part to Play": Commensuration in the Northern Irish and Palestinian Victims' Rights Movements / Candler Hallman -- Reasonable Affects: Moroccan Family Responses to Mediated Violence / Becky Schulthies -- Promoting Peace: Performing Peace: The Framing of Silence in a Quaker Vigil / Anna Marie Trester -- Narrating War and Peace at Battle Ruins: Okinawan Tourism-Activism Discourses / Taku Suzuki.
Discourse analysis
Political science
Languages & Literatures
Philology & Linguistics