The soft power of war / edited by Lilie Chouliaraki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chouliaraki, Lilie.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; 3.

Benjamins current topics ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Security, International.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Mass media and the war.

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, which was originally published as a Special Issue of Journal of Language & Politics 4:1 (2005), takes the war in Iraq as an exemplary case through which to demonstrate the changing nature of contemporary power. The book convincingly argues that the effective study of international politics depends today upon our understanding of the interplay between hard (military, economic) and soft (symbolic) power. One might say, between the politics of territory, guns or money and the language of narrating the world in coherent and persuasive stories. Bringing together different strands of discourse analysis with social, historical and, to an extent, political analysis, all contributions seek to illustrate the ways in which a variety of public genres, from political speeches to computer games and from educational material to newspaper reports, produce influential knowledge about the war and shape the ethical and political premises upon which the legitimacy of this war and a 'vision' of the emergent world order rests.

Contents:

The soft power of war : legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses / Lilie Chouliaraki

The language of neofeudal corporatism and the war on Iraq / Phil Graham and Allan Luke

Blair's contribution to elaborating a new "doctrine of international community" / Norman Fairclough

War rhetoric of a little ally : political implicatures and Aznar's legitimatization of the war in Iraq / Teun A. van Dijk

The Iraq war as curricular knowledge : from the political to the pedagogic divide / Bessie Mitsikopoulou and Dimitris Koutsogiannis

Computer games as political discourse : the case of Black Hawk down / David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

Spectacular ethics : on the television footage of the Iraq war / Lilie Chouliaraki.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612154669

9781282154667

1282154664

9789027292544

902729254X

OCLC:

648254279