Language and conflict : a neglected relationship
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Language and conflict : a neglected relationship
（Current issues in language and society）
Multilingual Matters, c1998
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This book is also available as Vol.4,No.3 of the journal Current Issues in Language and Society
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The links between conflict and language seem clear. In Dan Smith's analysis the idea of conflict brings us inexorably to nationalism, then to identity and thus to language. Language is unlikely to be a central cause of conflict, but it may contribute to the ways that nationalism and armed conflict unfold. Paul Chilton argues that the declaration of war is a linguistic act, that military operations can only be set in motion and continued by verbal activity and that all political institutions are ultimately constituted by forms of language and communication. Sue Wright examines the relationship between nation building (including linguistic unification) and the propaganda which justifies human and economic sacrifice and permits total war in the Clausewitzian sense. They argue that the political influence, significance and effect of linguistic borders and the discourse manipulation of language are factors in conflict which should not be ignored.
Table of Contents
1. Paul A. Chilton: The Role of Language in Human Conflict: Prolegomena to the Investigation of Language as a Factor in Conflict Causation and Resolution
2. Dan Smith: Language and Discourse in Conflict and Conflict Resolution
3. Sue Wright: Language as a Contributing Factor in Conflicts Between States and Within States
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