Language and conflict : selected issues /
An entertaining and accessible guide for students taking an undergraduate course in discourse analysis or sociolinguistics. This is a book that will give students some useful 'hands-on' experience of discourse analysis and will point the way forward for readers who want to specialize in th...
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New York :
Palgrave Mavcmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface Note for teachers Introduction 1. Mixing words and other things: A reason for conflict 2. Framing: How we talk differently about the same thing 3. Emotions: How words can influence our reasoning 4. Descriptions, inferences and evaluations: Different levels of abstraction and conflict 5. Euphemisms, dysphemisms, and political correctness: How we can get misdirected 6. Communicative competence: How we may misinterpret other people's linguistic behaviour 7. Meaning: How conflicts revolve around the definitions of words 8. Linguistics for peace education Conclusion: A trip to the Matses Glossary References Index.