Table of Contents

Michael Billig: Preface: Language as forms of death
Mirjana N. Dedaić: Introduction: A peace of word

I. War Discourse

Kathryn Ruud: Liberal parasites and other creepers: Rush Limbaugh, Ken Hamblin, and the discursive construction of group identities

Suzanne Wong Scollon: Threat or business as usual? A multimodal, intertextual analysis of a political statement

Paul Chilton Deixis and Distance: President Clinton's Justification of Intervention in Kosovo

Robert E. Tucker and Theodore O. Prosise: The language of atomic science and atomic conflict: Exploring the limits of symbolic representation

Kweku Osam: The politics of discontent: A discourse analysis of texts of the reform movement in Ghana

Alexander Pollak: When guilt becomes a foreign country: Guilt and Responsibility in Austrian postwar media-representation of the Second World War

Gertraud Benke and Ruth Wodak: Remembering and forgetting: THE discursive construction of generational memories

II. Language wars

Keith Langston and Anita Peti-Stantić: Attitudes towards linguistic purism in Croatia: Evaluating efforts at language reform

Rumiko Shinzato: Wars, politics, and language: A case study of the Okinawan language

Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain: Language choice and cultural hegemony in the Western Pacific: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in the Republic of Palau

Marilena Karyolemou: "Keep your language and I'll keep mine": Politics, language, and the construction of identities in Cyprus

Renée Dickason: Advertising for peace as political communication

Mark Allen Peterson: American warriors speaking American: The metapragmatics of performance in the nation state

Daniel N. Nelson: Conclusion: Word peace

About the Author

Mirjana N. Dedai? is affiliated with Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.Daniel N. Nelson is Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Reviews

"At war with words contains many excellent essays, including important contributions by prominent scholars, but the wide range of material included means that the book will likely be remembered more for its individual parts than for their sum. Taken together, these books lay the foundation for research into questions that, unfortunately, seem more pressing with each passing day."Kerim Friedman in: Language in Society 4-2005