LEADER 04692nam 22007211 450 001 9910459799303321 005 20200124110340.0 010 $a0-7556-1059-8 010 $a1-283-04827-2 010 $a9786613048271 010 $a0-85771-875-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755610594 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081991 035 $a(EBL)688252 035 $a(OCoLC)721194971 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000753296 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12239527 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000753296 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10801281 035 $a(PQKB)10831500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC688252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL688252 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL304827 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09264916 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081991 100 $a20200131d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShocked and awed $ehow the war on terror and Jihad have changed the English language /$fby Fred Halliday 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84885-031-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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, 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $a"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. 606 $aEnglish language$vTerms and phrases 606 $aEnglish language$xNew words 606 $aJihad 606 $aLanguage and international relations 606 $aLinguistic change 606 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009$xLanguage 606 $aLanguage: history & general works$2BIC 615 0$aEnglish language 615 0$aEnglish language$xNew words. 615 0$aJihad. 615 0$aLanguage and international relations. 615 0$aLinguistic change. 615 0$aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009$xLanguage. 615 7$aLanguage: history & general works. 676 $a303.6250321 700 $aHalliday$b Fred$0250441 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459799303321 996 $aShocked and awed$91938453 997 $aUNINA