Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War - Softcover

Glover, Ross

 
9780814716281: Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814716288 ISBN 13: 9780814716281
Verlag: New York University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Thirteen essays contextualizing the new meanings around certain words and phrases in the post-9/11 discourse

Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, blowback. These and other highly charged terms have saturated news broadcasts and everyday conversation since September 11th. But to keen ears their meanings change depending upon who's doing the talking. So what do these words really mean? And what are people trying to say when they use them?

Each of the thirteen essays in Collateral Language offers an informed perspective on a particular word or phrase that serves as a building block in the edifice of post-World Trade Center rhetoric. In some cases this involves a systematic examination of the term in question (e.g. "anthrax" or "unity")its historical roots, the development of its meaning and usage in the U.S. over time, and its employment in the current context. In other cases authors provide a set of more philosophical or autobiographical reflections on a particular idea (e.g. "vital interests" or "evil"), suggesting a need to consider the ethical and moral implications of using the concept uncritically. In every instance, however, the overriding goal is to give the reader a set of practical tools to analyze the political language that surrounds all of us at this critical point in our nation's history.
Witty, informative and highly readable, Collateral Language is a lexicon of political terminology and an indispensable tool for understanding the current conflict.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

John Collins is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University. He is co-editor of Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War.

Ross Glover is Visiting Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University.

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Verlag
New York University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814716288
ISBN 13 
9780814716281
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Anzahl der Seiten
230
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