Paul A. Chilton - Language and Conflict: A Neglected Relationship
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The three essays on language and conflict presented in this text area a result of a growing awareness that researchers in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics and in the peace and conflict resolution field have much to say to each other. In Dan Smiths analysis the idea of conflict brings us inexorably to nationalism, then to identify and thus to language. Language is unlikely to be the central cause of conflict, but it may contribute to the ways that nationalsim and armed conflict unfold. Paul Clinton argues that the declaration of war is a linguistic act, that military operations can only be set in motion and continued by verbal activity and that all political institutions are ultimately constituted by forms of language and communication. In the final essay in the text Sue Wright examines the relationship between nation building (including linguistic unification) and the propaganda which justifies human and economic sacrifice, and permits total war in the Clausewitzian sense. All three essays argue that the political influence, significance and effect of linguistic borders and the discourse manipulation of language are factors in conflict which should not be ignored.
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Editorial Board Dennis Ager, Paul Chilton, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Christina Schffner and Sue Wright are all members of the Institute for the Study of Language and Society at Aston University, Birmingham.
Analysing Political Speeches CHRISTINA SCHFFNER (ed.)
Children Talking: The Development of Pragmatic Competence LINDA THOMPSON (ed.)
Cultural Functions of Translation CHRISTINA SCHFFNER and HELEN KELLY-HOLMES (eds)
Discourse and Ideologies CHRISTINA SCHFFNER and HELEN KELLY-HOLMES (eds)
Ethnicity in Eastern Europe: Questions of Migration, Language Rights and Education SUE WRIGHT (ed.)
Language and the State: Revitalization and Revival in Israel and Eire SUE WRIGHT (ed.)
Languages in Contact and Conflict: Contrasting Experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium SUE WRIGHT (ed.)
Managing Language Diversity SUE WRIGHT and HELEN-KELLY HOLMES (eds)
Monolingualism and Bilingualism: Lessons from Canada and Spain SUE WRIGHT (ed.)
One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong SUE WRIGHT and HELEN KELLY-HOLMES (eds)
Translation and Quality CHRISTINA SCHFFNER (ed.)
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This book is also available as Vol. 4, No. 3 of the journal Current Issues in Language and Society
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Editorial
These three essays are a result of a growing awareness that researchers in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics and in the peace and conflict resolution field have much to say to each other. This realisation grew over a number of occasional meetings between the three authors. The first set, during the 1980s, occurred because Dan Smith and Paul Chilton were both involved in the European debate concerning the Cold War, and the second, during the 1990s, because Dan Smith and Sue Wright were invited to participate in a series of conferences on Europeanisation run by the International Social Science Research Centre in Vienna.
It seems inevitable that these two areas should find it profitable to work together. As Dan Smith says in the first paragraph of his essay, conflict brings us inexorably to nationalism, then to identity and thus to language. From the other direction, study of language policy on the one hand and the elaboration of discourse on the other cannot ignore situations of war and conflict. This is where the most interesting phenomena are likely to be found. We were aware of an existing discourse approach based on continental philosophy, the work of Derrida and Heidegger among others. Our ambition, however, was to be more down to earth and to anchor this research in two very concrete areas: the political influence, significance and effect of linguistic borders and the discourse manipulation of language.
A desire to push collaboration forward brought us to produce the present volume. In talking and writing it has become abundantly clear that we are at an early stage in this work. Many of the phenomena and connections which we suspect may be present between the two disciplines have, as yet, little formal empirical data to support them. At the moment we are relying purely on personal experience and intellectual guesswork to suggest that such connections exist. Thus this set of essays has something of an agenda setting purpose. In them we rehearse what is already known and start to ask the questions necessary for the interdisciplinary research programmes that we hope will follow. It is a first exploratory step towards making this encounter systematic and to developing a formal methodology for an interdisciplinary programme.
The format of this issue of the journal departs from our usual practice which is to invite an expert to give a paper on a controversial subject and then to publish both the paper and the debate and written responses which it provokes. Here at the outset of new cross-disciplinary collaboration we need to fire interest in the area and solicit responses from those who wish to contribute to the debate. These three essays are a starting point and we hope for reactions and contributions from readers. Our plan is that after further research we shall hold a set of meetings in our regular mode on the subject.
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