The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict

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<P><I><P>The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict </I>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 t