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War and Its Ideologies

Part of the The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-0996-0

ISBN: 978-981-13-0994-6

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Oct 10, 2018

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Chapter 1Language, Linguistics and Ideology

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 1 –31

[This chapter introduces the central problem of the book: how language allows us to legitimate war, yet stigmatize violence. In the twentieth century, an estimated 111 million people were killed directly through the violence perpetrated during wars, while many millions more died of indirect...
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Chapter 2The Quest for Meaning in Twentieth Century Linguistics

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 33 –54

[Linguistic theories are ideologies about the nature of language. They vary in their capacity to bring out the ideological potential of language. This chapter explores a selection of key linguists – Vološinov, Saussure, FirthFirth, J.R. and Whorf – whose ideas are fundamental for understanding...
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Chapter 3Ideology in a Socio-semiotic Linguistic Theory

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 55 –80

[To understand the extraordinary power of language, we must understand the semiotic machinery which produces it. This chapter shows, using Halliday’s linguistic framework with extensions from Hasan’s work, how and why language is the engine-room of ideology. The ideological potential of language...
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Chapter 4War and Violence: Etymology, Definitions, Frequencies, Collocations

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 81 –106

[This chapter explores the etymology, definition, frequency and collocation patterns of the lexical item war by comparison with the lexical item violence. It shows war to be a highly frequent lexical item (e.g. it is in the top 500 most frequent lexical items in English, ranking higher than words...
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Chapter 5Ideology in the Act of Meaning

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 107 –140

[This chapter analyses a news report of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which construes these events as war. The text is examined through Halliday’s three metafunctions. The analysis shows that with the category war comes a semantic configuration in which the agency of the belligerents is obscured,...
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Chapter 6A Counter-Ideology: War as Violence

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 141 –159

[The focus of this chapter is the analysis and interpretation of a news article which displays a contrasting orientation to the reporting of the invasion of Iraq presented in the previous chapter. In this news article, written by veteran foreign correspondent Robert FiskFisk, R., the invasion is...
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Chapter 7Configurative Rapport: The “Existential Fabric” of War

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 161 –195

[In this chapter, the primary data set is a two week sample of news reports of the invasion of Iraq from the ABC TVABC TV corpus nightly news bulletin (n texts = 123; n words = 43, 441). The corpus has a high frequency for the lexical item war (the normalised frequency is 7918 pmw, compared with...
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Chapter 8Language in the Legitimation of War

Lukin, Annabelle

Pages: 197 –201

[This chapter argues that there is no more powerful test case for the power of language than its capacity to reconcile our ongoing resort to violence with our parallel condemnation of it. The linguistic patterns affirming war are tightly woven. War is supported by the highly elaborate linguistic...

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