Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror an Jihad Have Chanched the English Language

Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror an Jihad Have Chanched the English Language

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and 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. Halliday chronicles the use and development of all the neologisms produced by the 'War on Terror', and exmines the underlying dynamics driving them. He argues thatthe increased use of everyday words from Arabic, for example, reflects not only increased interest in the Arab world but also hostility to it, a sense that its reference points are 'untranslatable' in our own culture. 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 violentclash of ideologies that has marked the opening of the 21st century.

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