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Author:   Adam Hodges (A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Humanities Fellow, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Humanities Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780199937271

ISBN 10:   0199937273
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   15 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1. War, Discourse, and Peace Adam Hodges Part I. Justifying War 2. 'New World Coming': Narratives of the Future in U.S. Post-Cold War National Security Discourse Patricia Dunmire 3. The Generic U.S. Presidential War Narrative: Justifying Military Force and Imagining the Nation Adam Hodges 4. The Discursive Battlefield of the ""War on Terror"": Enabling Strategies for Garnering Public Support in the Rhetoric of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden Anna Podvornaia 5. World of the Impolitic: A Critical Study of the British WMD Dossier Aditi Bhatia Part II. Negotiating Military Deployment 6. Culture Clash: Framing Peacekeeping and its Role in a Canadian Context Janis Goldie 7. Promising without Speaking: Military Realignment and Political Promising in Japan Chad Nilep Part III. Responding to Armed Conflict 8. ""Everyone Has Their Particular Part to Play"": Commensuration in the Northern Irish and Palestinian Victims' Rights Movements Candler Hallman 9. Reasonable Affects: Moroccan Family Responses to Mediated Violence Becky Schulthies Part IV. Promoting Peace 10. Performing Peace: The Framing of Silence in a Quaker Vigil Anna Marie Trester 11. Narrating War and Peace at Battle Ruins: Okinawan Tourism-Activism Discourses Taku Suzuki Index"

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"""...Discourses of War and Peace is an interesting... collection not only for scholars in sociolinguistics and Memory Studies, but also for open-minded political scientists and researchers in American Studies, comparative history, linguistic anthropology, International Relations and Peace Studies."" --Discourse & Communication"

.. .Discourses of War and Peace is an interesting... collection not only for scholars in sociolinguistics and Memory Studies, but also for open-minded political scientists and researchers in American Studies, comparative history, linguistic anthropology, International Relations and Peace Studies. --Discourse & Communication

Author Information

Adam Hodges is author of The 'War on Terror' Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality (2011, Oxford University Press), and co-editor of Discourse, War and Terrorism (2007, John Benjamins Publishing). His work in discourse analysis examines the social, cultural, and political dimensions of language use, particularly the way discourse intersects with power to shape the social world in which we live.

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