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UNINA9910958133003321 |
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Halliday Fred |
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Shocked and awed : how the war on terror and Jihad have changed the English language / / by Fred Halliday |
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London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2010 |
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9786613048271 |
9780755614394 |
0755614399 |
9780755610594 |
0755610598 |
9781283048279 |
1283048272 |
9780857718754 |
0857718754 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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English language |
English language - New words |
Jihad |
Language and international relations |
Linguistic change |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Language |
Language: history & general works |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Publisher's Note; Introduction; Chapter 1. 9/11, US Intelligence and Counterterrorism; Chapter 2. Motifs of Jihad: Terrorist Group, Armed Actions and the Imagery of Osama bib Laden; Chapter 3. Extraordinary Renditions: Abduction, Abuse and Torture; Chapter 4. The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Chapter 5. Some Islamic and Middle Eastern Vocabulary; Chapter 6. Images of Muslims: Stereotypes, Insults, |
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Self-Perceptions; Chapter 7. Palestine and Israel: 'Holy Land' and Other Inventions; Chapter 8. From 'Collateral Damage' to 'Mowing the Lawn': The Euphemisms of War |
Chapter 9. 'Bad Guys', 'Circular Firing Squad', 'Slum Dunk': The Vitality of US ColloquialChapter 10. Spaces, Real and Imagined; Chapter 11. Obscuring Responsability: Euphemisms, Circumlocutions and Vagaries of 'Exculpatory Passive'; Chapter 12. Some Other Distortions: History, Politics and International Relations; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration, Standardisation and Abbreviation; Works Consulted; Index |
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"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 its 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 and acronyms, such as 'Gitmo' and 'IED', and new imports, such as 'jihad' and 'Salafi', but also new - and distinctly sinister - ways of using existing language, such as 'extraordinary rendition' and 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. Halliday chronicles the use and development of all the neologisms produced by the 'War on Terror', and examines the underlying dynamics driving them. He argues that the increased use of everyday words from Arabic, for example, reflects not only increased interest in the Arab world but also hostility to it, a sense that its reference points are 'untranslatable' in our own culture. Scanning the pock-marked semantic landscape of the post 9/11 world, he uncovers hidden twists of phrasing and word associations which in themselves tell a story about the violent clash of ideologies that has marked the opening of the 21st century. Part indispensable reference, part polemic, part entertaining snapshot of our times, Shocked and Awed is a bristling arsenal of the 21st century's most potent weapons: Words."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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UNINA9910157763603321 |
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Autore |
Schlegelmilch Marianne |
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Titolo |
Driftfeather on the Alaska Seas : Ultimate Future of the Past another Alaskan Mystery |
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Anchorage : , : Publication Consultants, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (132 pages) |
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Detective and mystery stories |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chapter One Beginning from the End -- Chapter Two Chance Encounter? -- Chapter Three The War -- Chapter Four Clean Break . . . Almost -- Chapter Five Juneau Office -- Chapter Six Past Present-Again! -- Chapter Seven Inside Scoop -- Chapter Eight Home Sweet Home -- Chapter Nine New Focus -- Chapter Ten Storm Roamer -- Chapter Eleven Settling In -- Chapter Twelve Questions -- Chapter Thirteen Kona Coffee on the Deck -- Chapter Fourteen Maiden Voyage -- Chapter Fifteen What's with Stu? -- Chapter Sixteen Old Ways -- Chapter Seventeen Dinner for . . .? -- Chapter Eighteen Fine Dining -- Chapter Nineteen Uncharted Waters -- Chapter Twenty Misty Solace -- Chapter Twenty-One Wedding Bells and the Rain -- Chapter Twenty-Two What the . . . -- Chapter Twenty-Three Hmm . . . -- Chapter Twenty-Four Down Time -- Chapter Twenty-Five Java Java -- Chapter Twenty-Six It's Only Right . . . -- Chapter Twenty-Seven Stu's Memorial -- Chapter Twenty-Eight Past Revelations -- Chapter Twenty-Nine Are You Kidding Me? -- Chapter Thirty Casual Invitation? -- Chapter Thirty-One Seeing the Light -- Chapter Thirty-Two The Magic of Spring -- Chapter Thirty-Three Emily -- Chapter Thirty-Four Friend in Need -- Chapter Thirty-Five Will You . . . -- Chapter Thirty-Six Injustice? -- Chapter Thirty-Seven New Information -- Chapter Thirty-Eight Is It Over Yet? -- Chapter Thirty-Nine Enough Already -- Chapter Forty Heart-wrenching Discovery -- Chapter Forty-One Who's Who? -- |
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Chapter Forty-Two Facing It Alone -- Chapter Forty-Three Less Is More, More or Less -- Chapter Forty-Four What Really Happened Here? -- Chapter Forty-Five Closure . . . Almost -- Chapter Forty-Six Fine Dining -- Chapter Forty-Seven To Beach or Not to Beach . . . -- Chapter Forty-Eight Home. |
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Could it have been a strange coincidence or a magical matter of fate that allowed the final draft of Driftfeather on the Alaska Seas to be finished during the full solar eclipse of May 2012?. |
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