The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113864384X ISBN 13: 9781138643840

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and applications of linguistics in situations of conflict. Spanning 30 chapters by a variety of international scholars, this Handbook:

• includes real-life case studies of conflict and covers conflicts from a wide range of geographical locations at every scale of involvement (from the personal to the international), of every timespan (from the fleeting to the decades-long) and of varying levels of intensity (from the barely articulated to the overtly hostile)
• sets out the textual and interactional ways in which conflict is engendered and in which people and groups of people can be set against each other
• considers what linguistic research has brought, and can bring, to the universal aim of minimising the negative effects of outbreaks of conflict wherever and whenever they occur.

The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict is an essential reference book for students and researchers of language and communication, linguistics, peace studies, international relations and conflict studies.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Evans is a Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Huddersfield.

Lesley Jeffries is Professor of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Huddersfield.

Jim O’Driscoll is a member of the Language in Conflict team at the University of Huddersfield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113864384X
• ISBN 13: 9781138643840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Evans Matthew, Jeffries Lesley, O'Driscoll Jim