Language and Peace.
- 1st ed.
- Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1995. 1995.
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
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Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Language, Ideology and Peace -- 1 Defining Peace: Perspectives from Peace Research -- Introduction -- Cross-cultural definitions -- Peace education -- Nobel Peace Prize -- Peace Encyclopedia -- Peace organizations -- Peace research institutes -- Peace movements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Discourse Analysis as Ideology Analysis -- Introduction -- Theory of ideology -- Discourse analysis as ideological analysis -- Surface structures -- Syntax -- Lexicon -- Local semantics -- Global semantics: Topics -- Schematic structures -- Rhetoric -- Pragmatics -- Dialogical interaction -- Conclusion -- Part II Language and War -- 3 Foreign Policy by Metaphor -- The metaphorical nature of foreign policy concepts -- Metaphor, concepts and action -- States as persons -- Person, society, state -- Law and order -- Body-politic -- Fist fights -- Rational choice and games -- The arms race and beyond -- States as containers -- States as objects in a force field -- Containment -- The state-as-house metaphor -- Why metaphors matter -- Metaphor and interests -- What metaphors hide -- Imagine -- Notes -- 4 A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Editorials on the Lebanon 1982 Crisis -- Introduction -- Research drawn upon -- Research questions -- Method -- Findings -- Themes and arguments/keywords -- Metaphor -- Ideology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 The 'Balance' Metaphor in Relation to Peace -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Macropropositions and keywords -- Typical macropropositions -- Keywords and their semantic profile -- Excerpt 1 -- The explanatory value of cognitive metaphors -- The balance metaphor -- Components of the balance metaphor -- Excerpt 2 -- Excerpt 3 -- Excerpt 4 -- Excerpt 5 -- Metaphorically based reasoning -- Excerpt 6. Inconsistencies in reasoning in relation to the balance metaphor -- Excerpt 7 -- Excerpt 8 -- Excerpt 9 -- Bipolar versus multipolar world -- Excerpt 10 -- Continuity and change in the argumentation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Promising to End a War=Language of Peace? The Rhetoric of Allied News Management in the Gulf War 1991 -- Introduction -- Defining the beginning of a war -- Defining the ending of a war -- Fulfilling a victory promise -- Searching for victory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III Language and Social Discrimination -- 7 Establishing Linguistic Markers of Racist Discourse -- Introduction -- Overt racist discourse -- Overt racist discourse in the print media -- Overt racism in talkback radio -- Excerpt 1 -- Excerpt 2 -- Covert racist discourse -- Scientific truth and philosophical principles in conflict -- Excerpt 3 -- Words of concession -- Excerpt 4 -- Tolerant talk and covert racist discourse -- Excerpt 5 -- Complex symbols -- Playing down -- Excerpt 6 -- Some comparative remarks on overt and covert racism in discourse -- Conclusion -- 8 Power and Ideology in Different Discursive Practices -- Introduction -- Source of data -- Discourse -- Discursive practices -- Discourse conditions of production and reception -- Discourse possibility conditions -- Inter-discursive processes -- Excerpt 1 -- Excerpt 2 -- Imaginary formations -- Excerpt 3 -- Excerpt 4 -- Excerpt 5 -- Excerpt 6 -- Excerpt 7 -- Excerpt 8 -- Excerpt 9 -- Excerpt 10 -- Excerpt 11 -- Discursive devices of power and ideology -- Discourse acts and power -- Excerpt 12 -- Excerpt 13 -- Excerpt 14 -- Ideological stereotypes -- Personal pronouns as discursive indicators of power and ideology -- Excerpt 15 -- Excerpt 16 -- Excerpt 17 -- Excerpt 18 -- Excerpt 19 -- Excerpt 20 -- Modal verbs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 The Role of Language in European Nationalist Ideologies. Introduction -- Language as a distinctive feature -- The significance of a non-issue -- Language: A marker of identity -- Natural discontinuities -- The different faces of homogeneism -- Of nations and tribes -- Obvious universality -- Language in the Empire -- Language as a battlefield -- Natural resistance and democracy -- Multilingualism and tolerance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Language and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Inequality: Malay and English in Malaysia -- Introduction -- Historical and sociolinguistic context of English and Malay -- Forms and functions of lexical transfer from Malay to English -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part IV Language, Education and Peace -- 11 Doctor-Patient Communication: Training Medical Practitioners for Change -- Introduction -- Asymmetry in discourse -- Conflicting frames of reference -- Description of the study -- Data and subjects -- Objectives -- Methodology -- Data analysis -- Interactional hegemony -- Excerpt 1 -- Excerpt 2 -- Participants' conversational strategies -- Excerpt 3 -- Excerpt 4 -- Excerpt 5 -- Excerpt 6 -- Excerpt 7 -- Excerpt 8 -- Convergence and divergence of interest -- Excerpt 9 -- Excerpt 10 -- Discussion of the findings -- Training practitioners for change -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Transcript of the interview -- 12 Perceptions of Language in L1 and L2 Teacher-Pupil Interaction: The Construction of Readers' Social Identities -- Introduction -- Discourse and society -- Research methodology and context -- Analysis and discussion of data -- PMT reading classes -- Excerpt 14 -- Excerpt 2 -- Excerpt 3 -- Excerpt 4 -- Excerpt 5 -- Excerpt 6 -- Excerpt 7 -- EFL reading classes -- Excerpt 85 -- Excerpt 9 -- Excerpt 10 -- Excerpt 11 -- Excerpt 12 -- Excerpt 13 -- Excerpt 14 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 Critical Language Education -- Introduction -- Social need -- Educational response. A content schema for critical language education -- Language and discourse -- A global view of discourse -- Propositions, keywords and themes -- Text schemas -- Scope of identification -- A micro perspective -- Modes of legitimation -- Lexicalization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.