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  title info:
    title: Kill talk
    sub title: language and military necropolitics
  title info:
    title: Language and military necropolitics
  name:
    name part: McIntosh, Janet
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 339 pages) : illustrations (some color).
  abstract: "The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking work of linguistic anthropology offers a unique perspective on how language facilitates the necropolitical work of combat infantry-the state's killable killers. It traces the nuances of military "kill talk" from the first exposure to yelling in Marine Corps basic training to the dark humor and nihilistic expressions found in war zones in Vietnam and the Middle East. McIntosh reveals how military trainers use language to militarize, toughen, and masculinize recruits, while infantry soldiers develop distinct linguistic repertoires and attitudes to suppress empathy, dehumanize and racialize the enemy, cope with loss, and dwell in a moral gray zone. The book offers powerful examples of the way military language is intertwined with militarized thought, feeling, and experience. "Kill Talk" also addresses national debates over language use in a diverse world, exploring tensions between calls for sensitivity and restraint in military speech and the perception that these can threaten national security. The book highlights the contradictions between the rhetoric of military honor and moral integrity and the harsh, sometimes depraved, language of combatants, suggesting that these paradoxes enable military violence yet contribute to moral injury. It concludes with an exploration of veteran poets and artists who have found innovative ways to use language and other forms of expression to critique military institutions and begin the process of demilitarizing their psyches"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction to kill talk -- Yelling -- Insults and kill chants -- Broken rules and head games -- “Mothers of America” and “a woke, emasculated military” -- Dehumanization in combat -- Language as a shattered mirror -- Frame perversion : the twisted humor of combat -- Poetry of rehumanization -- Combat paper -- Coda : the nervous system.
  note: Janet McIntosh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Military
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Violence in language
  subject:
    topic: Anthropological linguistics
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: English language
    genre: Terms and phrases
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Sociologie militaire
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Violence dans le langage
  subject:
    topic: Ethnolinguistique
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Anglais (Langue)
    genre: Mots et locutions
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Forces armées
    topic: Langage
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
  subject:
    topic: Psycholinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Cultural
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Language teaching & learning
  subject:
    topic: Language
  classification: U21.5 .M39 2025
  classification: 355.001/4
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    title info:
      title: Kill talk
    name:
      name part: McIntosh, Janet, 1969-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024056620
    identifier: (OCoLC)1512665485
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in the anthropology of language
  identifier: 9780197808054
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  identifier: 9780197808047
  identifier: 0197808042
  identifier: 9780197808016
  identifier: 9780197808023
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250321
    record change date: 20260319205522.9
    record identifier: in00005727738
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng