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Collateral language : a user's guide to America's new war / edited by John Collins and Ross Glover.
LIBRA HV6432 .C64 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Language.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- English language--United States--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--2001---Terminology.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Politics and government--2001---Terminology.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, blowback. These and other highly charged terms have saturated news broadcasts and everyday conversations since 9/11. Each of the 13 essays in "Collateral Damage" offers an informed perspective on a particular word or phrase that serves as a building block in the edifice of post-World Trade Center rhetoric.
- Contents:
- Introduction / John Collins and Ross Glover
- Anthrax / R. Danielle Egan
- Blowback / Patricia M. Thornton and Thomas F. Thornton
- Civilization versus barbarism / Marina A. Llorente
- Cowardice / R. Danielle Egan
- Evil / Laura J. Rediehs
- Freedom / Andrew D. Van Alstyne
- Fundamentalism / Leah Renold
- Jihad / Kenneth Church
- Justice / Erin McCarthy
- Targets / Philip T. Neisser
- Terrorism / John Collins
- Unity / Eve Walsh Stoddard and Grant H. Cornwell
- Vital interests / Natalia Rachel Singer / The war on
- / Ross Glover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 081471627X
- 0814716288
- OCLC:
- 49784500
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