Binaries in battle : representations of division and conflict / edited by Marja Vuorinen, Noora Kotilainen and Aki-Mauri Huhtinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vuorinen, Marja, editor.

Kotilainen, Noora, editor.

Huhtinen, Aki, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Binary principle (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Defining things through binary opposition - male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death - forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to logic, we often represent binaries even as divisions into good and evil. Exclusions based on the division of Us vs. Them make their presence felt during any conflict, and become crucial in times of war. However, binary thinking is inherent also in peaceful, everyday conversation, when politics, social issues, ethnicities and religious identities ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART III; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART IV; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6895-7

OCLC:

893648859