Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the origins of the Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict
Section 1: Text in conflict
1: Introduction: textual choice and communication in conflict
2: Discursive (re)construction of the prelude to the 2003 Iraq War in op/ed pieces: dialectics of argument and rhetoric
3: Stark choices and brutal simplicity: the blunt instrument of constructed opposition in news editorials
4: Projecting your 窶椀pponent窶吮�冱 views: linguistic negation and the potential for conflict
5: Ideological positioning in conflict: the United States and Egypt窶冱 domestic political trajectory
6: Homosexuality in Latvian and Polish parliamentary debates 1994-2013: a historical approach to conflict in political discourse
7: Conflict and categorisation: a corpus and discourse study of naming participants in forced migration
8: Hate speech: conceptualisations, interpretations and reactions
Section 2: Interaction in conflict
9: Introduction
10: Conflict, disagreement and (im)politeness
11: Offence and conflict talk
12: Conflict interaction: insights from Conversation Analysis
13: Conflict in political discourse: conflict as congenital to political discourse
14: Discourse features of disputing in small claims hearings
15: Leadership in conflict: disagreement and consensus negotiation in a start-up team
16: Interaction and conflict in digital communication
Section 3: Languages in conflict
17: Introduction: conflict with the stuff of language
18: Ethnicity, conflict and language choice: the case of northern Ghana
19: Language and conflict in the Mapuche context
20: Linguistic Landscape as an arena of conflict: language removal, exclusion and ethnic identity construction in Lithuania
21: "You are shamed for speaking it or for not speaking it good enough": the paradoxical status of Spanish in the US Latino community
22: Hate crimes: language, vulnerability and conflict
23: Language ideologies in conflict at the workplace
Section 4: Linguistics in conflict
24: Introduction: the potential for Linguistics to change conflict in the 窶腕eal窶� world
25: The value of linguistics in assessing potential threats in an airport setting
26: Threatening contexts: an examination of threatening language from linguistic, legal and law enforcement perspectives
27: Talk in mediation: metaphors in acrimonious talk
28: Conflicts of policy and self-representation in the UK asylum process
29: On agency, witnessing and surviving: interpreters in situations of violent conflict
30: The Irish language in Belfast: the role of a language in post-conflict resolution
Afterword
Index
