|
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics
|
Buy Now
War and Its Ideologies - A Social-Semiotic Theory and Description (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Loot Price: R2,911
Discovery Miles 29 110
|
|
|
War and Its Ideologies - A Social-Semiotic Theory and Description (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
Expected to ship within 18 - 22 working days
|
Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational,
despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends. The power
of ideology comes from its intimate relation to language: ideology
recruits all semiotic modalities, but language is its engine-room.
Drawing on Halliday's linguistic theory - in particular, his
account of the "semiotic big-bang" - this book explains the latent
semiotic machinery of language on which ideology depends. The book
illustrates the ideological power of language through a study of
perhaps the most significant and consequential of our ideologies:
those that enable us to legitimate, celebrate, even venerate war,
at the same time that we abhor, denounce and proscribe violence. To
do so, it makes use of large multi-register corpora (including the
British National Corpus), and the reporting of the 2003 invasion of
Iraq by Australian, US, European, and Asian news sources. Combining
detailed text analysis with corpus linguistic methods, it provides
an empirical analysis showing the astonishing reach of our
ideologies of war and their profoundly covert and coercive power.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
