Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence?
Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse anal...
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| description | Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explain events as clearly as they might. Despite social, political and strategic incentives to use sanitised language, its use appears to undermine the democratic process and reduce public authorities’ freedoms, possibly emboldening adversaries and turning away potential partners. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1426172024-07-31T04:35:21Z Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence? Fyjis-Walker, Matthew Iraq Libya civilian casualties communications double speak drones public understanding strategic communications surrogacy trust thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJC Language learning: specific skills::CJCW Language learning: writing skills Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explain events as clearly as they might. Despite social, political and strategic incentives to use sanitised language, its use appears to undermine the democratic process and reduce public authorities’ freedoms, possibly emboldening adversaries and turning away potential partners. 2024-07-31T04:35:19Z 2024-07-31T04:35:19Z 2024-07-29T12:30:11Z 2024 book ONIX_20240729_9789004696426_32 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92502 9789004696426 9789004696419 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142617 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92502/1/9789004696426.pdf Brill Nijhoff 10.1163/9789004696426 10.1163/9789004696426 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 9789004696426 9789004696419 Nijhoff 80 open access |
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