Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict

<p>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 <em>Handbook</em> critically examines text interaction languages and applications of linguistics in situations of conflict. Spanning 30 chapters by a variety of international scholars this <em>Handbook</em>:</p><ul> <li> 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) </li> <li>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 </li> <li>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.</li> </ul><p>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.</p>