Shocked and Awed
How the War on Terror and Jihad Have Changed the English Language
Far more than just a military conflict, the 'War on Terror' has been a struggle over values and meanings, a desperate contest for hearts and minds in which language has become the battlefield. In this highly original book, Fred Halliday takes us on a tour of this new war-zone, its artillery and trenches, minefields and booby-traps. Drawing on years of painstaking collation, Halliday shows how the 'War on Terror' has brought us not just new words, such as 'Gitmo', and new imports, such as 'jihad', but also new ways of using existing language, such as 'extraordinary rendition'. Scanning the pock-marked semantic landscape of the post 9/11 world,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85771-875-4
- EAN: 9780857718754
- Produktnummer: 22574759
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'665 KB
Über den Autor
Fred Halliday, who died in April 2010 aged 64, was Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the London School of Economics and a Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. He was familiar with 10 languages, including Arabic and Persian, and published over 20 books, including 'Islam and the Myth of Confrontation' (I.B.Tauris).
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