The Soft Power of War

Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 4:1 (2005)

Editor

Lilie Chouliaraki | Copenhagen Business School

[Journal of Language and Politics, 4:1] 2005. 175 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 June 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.4.1

Table of Contents

Introduction: The soft power of war: Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses Lilie Chouliaraki	1–10
The language of neofeudal corporatism and the war on Iraq Philip Graham and Allan Luke	11–39
Blair’s contribution to elaborating a new ‘doctrine of international community’ Norman Fairclough	41–63
War rhetoric of a little ally: Political implicatures and Aznar’s legitimatization of the war in Iraq Teun A. van Dijk	65–91
The Iraq war as curricular knowledge: From the political to the pedagogic divide Bessie Mitsikopoulou and Dimitris Koutsogiannis	93–117
Computer games as political discourse: The case of Black Hawk Down David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen	119–141
Spectacular ethics: On the television footage of the Iraq war Lilie Chouliaraki	143–159
Film as language: The politics of early film theory (19201960): The case of Siegfried Kracauer as émigré intellectual Markus Rheindorf	161–168

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The Soft Power of War

Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 4:1 (2005)

Cited by four other publications

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