Collateral Language

Author : John Collins,Ross Glover
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814772652

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Collateral Language by John Collins,Ross Glover Pdf

Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, blowback. These and other highly charged terms have saturated news broadcasts and everyday conversation since September 11th. But to keen ears their meanings change depending upon who's doing the talking. So what do these words really mean? And what are people trying to say when they use them? Each of the thirteen essays in Collateral Language 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. In some cases this involves a systematic examination of the term in question (e.g. "anthrax" or "unity")its historical roots, the development of its meaning and usage in the U.S. over time, and its employment in the current context. In other cases authors provide a set of more philosophical or autobiographical reflections on a particular idea (e.g. "vital interests" or "evil"), suggesting a need to consider the ethical and moral implications of using the concept uncritically. In every instance, however, the overriding goal is to give the reader a set of practical tools to analyze the political language that surrounds all of us at this critical point in our nation's history. Witty, informative and highly readable, Collateral Language is a lexicon of political terminology and an indispensable tool for understanding the current conflict.

Author : Somdeep Sen,John Collins
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820360515

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Globalizing Collateral Language by Somdeep Sen,John Collins Pdf

Language is never just a means of communication. It terrorizes. And, especially in times of war, it has the ability to target civilians and generate fear as a means of producing specific political outcomes, most notably the passive and active acceptance of state violence itself. For this reason, the critical examination of language must be a central part of any effort to fight imperialism, militarism, demagoguery, racism, sexism, and other structures of injustice. Globalizing Collateral Language examines the discourse surrounding 9/11 and its entrenchment in global politics and culture. To interrogate this wartime lexicon of “collateral language,” editors John Collins and Somdeep Sen have assembled a volume of critical essays that explores the long shadow of America’s “War on Terror” discourse. They illuminate how this language has now found resonance across the globe and in political projects that have little to do with the “War on Terror.” Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this book calls on us to resist the tyranny of collateral language at a time when the need for such interventions in the public sphere is more urgent than ever.

Author : Patrick L. Del Duca
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Contracts
ISBN : 1604429372

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Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals by Patrick L. Del Duca Pdf

This book takes a comparative look at cross-border secured lending and commercial dispute resolution. It illustrates how parties involved in transactions can effectively structure their business to maximize their control of the language choice in which they deal. The book integrates investigations of national legal systems and various international organizations to illustrate the new institutitional dynamics through which the languages of transnational commerce and finance are being defined.

Author : A. Judge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230286177

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Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain by A. Judge Pdf

It was traditionally assumed that a single official language was necessary for the wellbeing of the state, particularly in France and Britain. This assumption is now questioned, and regional languages are making, in some cases, an impressive comeback. This book analyses a range of languages' development, decline and efforts at regeneration.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Robert Gordon Latham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English language
ISBN : UIUC:30112067886199

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A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson,Robert Gordon Latham Pdf

Author : Robert Gordon Latham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z22899080X

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“A” Dictionary of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham Pdf

Author : Sinan Antoon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300228946

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The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon Pdf

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood's project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland's past and its present--destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes--in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.

Author : Huw Lewis,Wilson McLeod
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030801892

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Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation by Huw Lewis,Wilson McLeod Pdf

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context. The period of four decades between 1980 and 2020 that straddled the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is widely regarded as one that witnessed a series of fundamental social, economic and political transformations. Many societies have become increasingly individualistic, mobile and diverse in terms of ethnicity and identity; their economies have become increasingly interconnected; and their governance structures have become increasingly complex, incorporating a growing number of different levels and actors. In addition, rapid advancements with regard to automated, digital and communication technology have had a far-reaching impact on how people interact with each other and participate in society. The chapters in this book aim to advance an agenda of key questions that should concern those working in the field of language revitalisation over the coming years, and the volume will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers in related areas including sociolinguistics, education, sociology, geography, political science, law, economics, Celtic studies, and communication technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042027039

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From Solidarity to Schisms by Anonim Pdf

From Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.

Author : Charles Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600083295

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On the study of language: an exposition of 'Epea pteroenta, or, The diversions of Purley, by John Horne Tooke'. by Charles Richardson Pdf

Author : Wilson McLeod
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474462419

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Gaelic in Scotland by Wilson McLeod Pdf

In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland, Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic.

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470885413

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Collateral Damaged by Charles R. Geisst Pdf

Sometime in the 1970s and 1980s, the use of credit cards, which had begun as a convenience, began to grow into an addiction. Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America explains how a nation of savers became a nation of consumers and how Wall Street used consumers' addiction to spending to create the "toxic securities" that threaten to bring about the collapse of the global economy. Geisst looks at the policy implications of the credit crisis and describes how the United States can get its fiscal house in order: Debt must be brought back onto the issuer's balance sheet. Investors must have the assurance of recourse to the debt issuer's own funds, rather than the empty promise of a valueless document. Regulators must be educated to know at least as much about financial engineering as the structured finance instruments' architects do. This book connects the dots from consumer spending to credit cards to home-equity loans and back to credit cards.

Author : United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127862105

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Annual Report - Comptroller of the Currency by United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Pdf

Author : Marthoz, Jean Paul
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Journalism
ISBN : 9789231001994

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Terrorism and the media by Marthoz, Jean Paul Pdf

Author : Adam Hodges,Chad Nilep
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227144

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Discourse, War and Terrorism by Adam Hodges,Chad Nilep Pdf

Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the “war on terror” to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political, economic and social phenomena. Discourse, War and Terrorism explores the discursive production of identities, the shaping of ideologies, and the formation of collective understandings in response to 9/11 in the United States and around the world. At issue are how enemies are defined and identified, how political leaders and citizens react, and how members of societies understand their position in the world in relation to terrorism. Contributors to this volume represent diverse sub-fields involved in the critical study of language, including perspectives from sociocultural linguistics, communication, media, cultural and political studies.