The new peace linguistics and the role of language in conflict

"The idea of Peace Linguistics (PL) has been around for decades. However, the practice of PL has only occurred much more recently, only within the last few years, since the first credit-bearing, university-level PL course was taught at Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2017. Since then, the fi...

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Main Author Curtis, Andy (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021.
SeriesPeace education.
Subjects
Language and peace.
Language and languages > Political aspects.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Communication > Political aspects.
Political Science > Peace.
Peace studies and conflict resolution.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806603589
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-732-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Introducing peace linguistics and the new peace linguistics
  • Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
  • Chapter 2. Language and conflict: The heart of the matter
  • Chapter 3. Peace linguistics: What it is, what it isn't, and why it matters
  • Chapter 4. The new peace linguistics: How new or new how?
  • Part II. New peace linguistics analyses of the language of george w. Bush, colin l. Powell, and barack h. Obama
  • Chapter 5. Othering, justifying, and denying
  • Chapter 6. Compacting meaning, audience relations, using narrative and strategic substitution
  • Chapter 7. Uses of echoing, medical and military metaphors, warist discourse, and re-presentations of history
  • Part III. New peace linguistics analyses of the language of donald j. Trump and joseph r. Biden
  • Chapter 8. Manipulating not communicating: Bending and breaking the rules
  • Chapter 9. Using language to manipulate, misrepresent, and misinform
  • Chapter 10. The pen is mightier than the sword: Warring words in writing
  • Chapter 11. Fear-mongering and feeding off the fear
  • Chapter 12. Calling for unity, recognizing wrongs, and promising positive change
  • Chapter 13. The new peace linguistics: Looking back, looking forward. Appendix a: Books on linguistics and applied linguistics, peace studies, and peace education. appendix b: Official transcripts. References. about the author.

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