War and Its Ideologies A Social-Semiotic Theory and Description /

Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends. The power of ideology comes from its intimate relation to language: ideology recruits all semiotic modalities, but language is its engine-room. Drawing on Halliday's linguis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lukin, Annabelle (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series,
Subjects:
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar.
Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Language, Linguistics and Ideology
  • 2. The Quest for Meaning in 20th Century Linguistics
  • 3. Ideology in a Socio-Semiotic Linguistic Theory
  • 4. War and Violence: Etymology, Definitions, Frequencies, Collocations
  • 5. Ideology in the Act of Meaning
  • 6. A Counter-ideology: War as Violence
  • 7. Configurative Rapport: The "Existential Fabric" of War
  • 8. Language in the Legitimation of War
  • 9. Appendices
  • 10. Index.

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