In a new era of global conflict involving non-state actors, AT WAR WITH WORDS offers a provocative perspective on the role of language in the genesis, conduct and consequence of mass violence. Sociolinguistics meets political science and communication studies in order to examine interdependence between armed conflict and language. As phenomena attributed only to humans, both armed conflict and language are visible on two axes: language as war discourse, and language as a social policy subject to change by the victorious.This book will be of interest to linguists, media scholars and political scientists, but is also accessible to any reader interested in language and war. Teachers will find particular chapters useful as course material in discourse analysis, language policy, war and peace studies, conflict resolution, mass communication, and other related disciplines. FROM THE CONTENTSMICHAEL BILLIG: Preface: Language as forms of deathMIRJANA N. DEDAIC: 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 WARSKEITH LANGSTON AND ANITA PETI-STANTIC: 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: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in 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 peaceSign up for our free electronic newsletter at www.degruyter.de/newsletter.To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbHPostfach 434372774 Reutlingen, GermanyFax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33E-mail: deGruyter@s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico:Walter de Gruyter, Inc.200 Saw Mill River RoadHawthorne, NY 10532, USAFax: +1 (914) 747-1326E-mail: cs@degruyterny.comPlease visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com