Security Metaphors: Cold War Discourse from Containment to Common House (Conflict and Consciousness)

Type

Book

Authors

Paul A. Chilton

ISBN 10

0820421782

ISBN 13

9780820421780

Tags

British & Irish, Communication, Semantics, Communication & Media Studies, European, History & Theory, Public Affairs & Administration, English Literature, Europe, Political History, International Relations, Public Affairs, Communications

Description

Understanding the nature of the 'cold war' that followed World War II is now more than ever a focus of debate. Security Metaphors starts from the premise that political and international realities are created, sustained and unraveled in discourse. The book begins by examining the conceptual underpinnings of international relations theory, and by careful linguistic analysis shows how metaphorical discourse contributed to the beginning and ending of the dangerous competition between 'East' and 'West'. It concludes not by attributing power to language, but to the hegemonic power that can best wield it. - from Amzon

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