Discourses of war and peace
By: edited by Adam Hodges
Series: Oxford studies of sociolinguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (UK)
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199937271
Subjects: Political aspects; Discourse analysis; Political science
Description: 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. 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. The book is divided into four sections that foreground the political effects of discourse on issues of war and peace, including the way discourse is harnessed to justify war (part I), negotiate military deployment (part II), respond to armed conflict (part III), and promote peace (part IV). The book has a strong enthnographic component; in addition to chapters that employ critical discourse analysis and narrative analysis, several chapters incorporate ethnographic analysis into the examination of language use. The book as a whole therefore provides complementary perspectives on discourses of war and peace.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War, discourse, and peace / Adam Hodges; title: Justifying War: 'New World Coming': Narratives of the Future in U.S. Post-Cold War National Security Discourse / Patricia Dunmire; title: The Generic U.S. Presidential War Narrative: Justifying Military Force and Imagining the Nation / Adam Hodges; title: 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; title: World of the Impolitic: A Critical Study of the British WMD Dossier / Aditi Bhatia; title: Negotiating Military Deployment: Culture Clash: Framing Peacekeeping and its Role in a Canadian Context / Janis Goldie; title: Promising without speaking: military realignment and political promising in japan / Chad Nilep; title: Responding to Armed Conflict: "Everyone Has Their Particular Part to Play": Commensuration in the Northern Irish and Palestinian Victims' Rights Movements / Candler Hallman; title: Reasonable Affects: Moroccan Family Responses to Mediated Violence / Becky Schulthies; title: Promoting Peace: Performing Peace: The Framing of Silence in a Quaker Vigil / Anna Marie Trester; title: Narrating War and Peace at Battle Ruins: Okinawan Tourism-Activism Discourses / Taku Suzuki.