The Routledge handbook of language in conflict Introduction: the origins of the Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict Lesley Jeffries and Jim ODriscoll Section 1: Text in conflict: 1. Introduction: textual choice and communication in conflict Lesley Jeffries 2. Discursive (re)construction of the prelude to the 2003 Iraq War in op ed pieces: dialectics of argument and rhetoric Ahmed Sahlane 3. Stark choices and brutal simplicity: the blunt instrument of constructed opposition in news editorials Matt Davies 4. Projecting your opponents views: linguistic negation and the potential for conflict Lisa Nahajec 5. Ideological positioning in conflict: the United States and Egypts domestic political trajectory Gibreel Sadeq Alaghbary 6. Homosexuality in Latvian and Polish parliamentary debates 1994 2013: a historical approach to conflict in political discourse Joanna Chojnicka 7. Conflict and categorisation: a corpus and discourse study of naming participants in forced migration Charlotte Taylor 8. Hate speech: conceptualisations interpretations and reactions Sharon Millar Section 2: Interaction in conflict: 9. Introduction Jim ODriscoll 10. Conflict disagreement and (im)politeness Maria Sifianou 11. Offence and conflict talk Michael Haugh and Valeria Sinkeviciute 12. Conflict interaction: insights from Conversation Analysis Phillip Glenn 13. Conflict in political discourse: conflict as congenital to political discourse Petter Bull and Anne Marie Simon Vandenbergen 14. Discourse features of disputing in small claims hearings Karen Tracy and Danielle M. Hodge 15. Leadership in conflict: disagreement and consensus negotiation in a start up team Christian J. Schmitt and Rosina Marquez Reiter 16. Interaction and conflict in digital communication Sage L. Graham Section 3: Languages in conflict: 17. Introduction: conflict with the stuff of language Jim ODriscoll 18. Ethnicity conflict and language choice: the case of northern Ghana Paul Kerswill and Edward Salifu Mahama 19. Language and conflict in the Mapuche context Robbie Felix Penman 20. Linguistic Landscape as an arena of conflict: language removal exclusion and ethnic identity construction in Lithuania Irina Moore 21. You are shamed for speaking it or for not speaking it good enough: the paradoxical status of Spanish in the US Latino community Pilar G. Blitvich 22. Hate crimes: language vulnerability and conflict Kamran Khan 23. Language ideologies in conflict at the workplace Julia de Bres and Anne Franziskus Section 4: Linguistics in conflict: 24. Introduction: the potential for Linguistics to change conflict in the real world Lesley Jeffries 25. The value of linguistics in assessing potential threats in an airport setting Dawn Archer Cliff Lansley and Aaron Garner 26. Threatening contexts: an examination of threatening language from linguistic legal and law enforcement perspectives Tammy Gales 27. Talk in mediation: metaphors in acrimonious talk Madeline M. Maxwell and Scott V. Anderson 28. Conflicts of policy and self representation in the UK asylum process Rachel Hanna 29. On agency witnessing and surviving: interpreters in situations of violent conflict Rebecca Tipton 30. The Irish language in Belfast: the role of a language in post conflict resolution Marcus Mac Coinnigh Linda Ervine and Pol Deeds Afterword Oliver Ramsbotham and Tom Woodhouse Index.