When the stakes of public words and actions are global and
permanent, and especially when they involve war and peace, can we
afford not to seek their meaning? For three decades, Francis A.
Beer has pioneered the effort to discover, describe, and connect
pieces of the complex puzzle of war, peace, their
interrelationship, and their causes.
In this volume, Beer (joined by colleagues as coauthors of some
chapters) examines the cognitive, behavioral, and linguistic
dimensions of war and peace. Language, he shows, is important
because it mediates between thought and action. It expresses
beliefs about war and peace and affects the perceptions of
potential adversaries about one's own intentions.
Beer examines how language transmits and creates meaning through
interaction with specific audiences. His case studies include the
Somalian intervention, Sarajevo and the Balkan conflict, and the
Gulf War. Moving beyond the discrete words of war, the book takes a
broader view of how political participants interact in war and
peace through continuous streams of communication that reflect and
construct worlds of meaning.
This volume brings together insights and evidence from political
science, cognitive psychology, linguistics, history, and rhetorical
studies and applies them in a focused way to the problem of war and
peace.
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