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Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence?
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Matthew Fyjis-Walker

Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explai…

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ISBN/ISSN
9789004696426
Collation
80 hlm; ill., lamp.,
Series Title
International Studies on Military Ethics, Volume: 14
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