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001			ASIN184885031X
005			20170105102845.0
008			130805s2010 xxu eng d
020			_a184885031X (paperback)
020			_a9781848850316 (paperback)
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050	0	4	_aHV6432
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100	1		_aHalliday, Fred.
245	1	0	_aShocked and awed : _bhow the war on terror and jihad have changed the english language / _cFred Halliday.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bI.B.Tauris, _c2010.
300			_a360 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aFar more than just a military conflict, the 'War on Terror' has been a struggle over values and meanings, a desperate contest for hearts and minds in which language has become the battlefield. In this highly original book, Fred Halliday takes us on a tour of this new war-zone, its artillery and trenches, minefields and booby-traps. Drawing on years of painstaking collation, Halliday shows how the 'War on Terror' has brought us not just new words, such as 'Gitmo', and new imports, such as 'jihad', but also new ways of using existing language, such as 'extraordinary rendition'. Scanning the pock-marked semantic landscape of the post 9/11 world, he uncovers hidden twists of phrasing and word associations, which in themselves tell a story about the violent clash of ideologies that has marked the opening of the 21st century. Part indispensable reference, part polemic, part entertaining snapshot of our times, "Shocked and Awed" is a bristling arsenal of the 21st century's most potent weapons: words.
650		0	_aEnglish language
650		0	_aEnglish language--New words
650		0	_aLanguage and international relations
650		0	_aLanguage and languages
650		0	_aLinguistic change
650		0	_aTerrorism
650		0	_aWar on Terrorism (2001-2009)
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184885031X/chopaconline-20
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