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The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of
linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of
communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the
Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and
applications of linguistics in situations of conflict. Spanning 30
chapters by a variety of international scholars, this Handbook:
includes real-life case studies of conflict and covers conflicts
from a wide range of geographical locations at every scale of
involvement (from the personal to the international), of every
timespan (from the fleeting to the decades-long) and of varying
levels of intensity (from the barely articulated to the overtly
hostile) sets out the textual and interactional ways in which
conflict is engendered and in which people and groups of people can
be set against each other considers what linguistic research has
brought, and can bring, to the universal aim of minimising the
negative effects of outbreaks of conflict wherever and whenever
they occur. The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict is an
essential reference book for students and researchers of language
and communication, linguistics, peace studies, international
relations and conflict studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of
linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of
communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the
Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and
applications of linguistics in situations of conflict. Spanning 30
chapters by a variety of international scholars, this Handbook:
includes real-life case studies of conflict and covers conflicts
from a wide range of geographical locations at every scale of
involvement (from the personal to the international), of every
timespan (from the fleeting to the decades-long) and of varying
levels of intensity (from the barely articulated to the overtly
hostile) sets out the textual and interactional ways in which
conflict is engendered and in which people and groups of people can
be set against each other considers what linguistic research has
brought, and can bring, to the universal aim of minimising the
negative effects of outbreaks of conflict wherever and whenever
they occur. The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict is an
essential reference book for students and researchers of language
and communication, linguistics, peace studies, international
relations and conflict studies.
Why do people take offence at things that are said? What is it
exactly about an offending utterance which causes this negative
reaction? How well motivated is the response to the offence?
Offensive Language addresses these questions by applying an array
of concepts from linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics to a
wide range of examples, from TV to Twitter and from Mel Gibson to
Donald Trump. Establishing a sharp distinction between potential
offence and actual offence, Jim O'Driscoll then examines a series
of case studies where offence has been caused, assessing the nature
and degree of both the offence and the documented response to it.
Through close linguistic analysis, this book explores the fine line
between free speech and criminal activity, searching for a
principled way to distinguish the merely embarrassing from the
reprehensible and the censurable. In this way, a new approach to
offensive language emerges, involving both how we study it and how
it might be handled in public life.
Why do people take offence at things that are said? What is it
exactly about an offending utterance which causes this negative
reaction? How well motivated is the response to the offence?
Offensive Language addresses these questions by applying an array
of concepts from linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics to a
wide range of examples, from TV to Twitter and from Mel Gibson to
Donald Trump. Establishing a sharp distinction between potential
offence and actual offence, Jim O'Driscoll then examines a series
of case studies where offence has been caused, assessing the nature
and degree of both the offence and the documented response to it.
Through close linguistic analysis, this book explores the fine line
between free speech and criminal activity, searching for a
principled way to distinguish the merely embarrassing from the
reprehensible and the censurable. In this way, a new approach to
offensive language emerges, involving both how we study it and how
it might be handled in public life.
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