Discourses of War and Peace

ISBN-13: 9780199937271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 304 str.

Adam Hodges

Opis

Given the prevalence of war around the world, it is vital to understand the way discourse contributes to the promotion and positioning of war as a natural or inevitable response to international problems. In addition, it is equally necessary to examine the way discourse impacts projects of peace, which seek to displace discourses of war with alternative visions of the world. This volume examines specific contexts around the world in which discourse operates in the service of war or to build alternative visions of peace. Contributors, who have backgrounds in linguistics, anthropology, rhetoric, and communication studies, draw upon discourse analytic and ethnographic methods to examine the discourse used by politicians and social actors in societies across the globe, including 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).

Recenzje

Discourses of war and peace gives an expert view and makes a tangible contribution to the practical appreciation of how language is used to enable war, and the ways in which it can be used to enable peace, and is recommended reading to anyone interested in this subject.

O autorze

Adam Hodges is an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of The 'War on Terror' Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality (2011), co-editor with Chad Nilep of Discourse, War and Terrorism (2007), and author of several scholarly articles and book chapters that examine American political discourse.