The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. This handbook is an essential reference book for students and researchers of language and communication, linguistics, peace studies, international relations and conflict studies.

Matthew Evans is a Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Huddersfield.

Lesley Jeffries is Professor of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Huddersfield.

Jim O'Driscoll is a member of the Language in Conflict team at the University of Huddersfield.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: the origins of the Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict

Section 1: Text in conflict

1: Introduction: textual choice and communication in conflict

2: Discursive (re)construction of the prelude to the 2003 Iraq War in op/ed pieces: dialectics of argument and rhetoric

3: Stark choices and brutal simplicity: the blunt instrument of constructed opposition in news editorials

4: Projecting your 'opponent''s views: linguistic negation and the potential for conflict

5: Ideological positioning in conflict: the United States and Egypt's domestic political trajectory

6: Homosexuality in Latvian and Polish parliamentary debates 1994-2013: a historical approach to conflict in political discourse

7: Conflict and categorisation: a corpus and discourse study of naming participants in forced migration

8: Hate speech: conceptualisations, interpretations and reactions

Section 2: Interaction in conflict

9: Introduction

10: Conflict, disagreement and (im)politeness

11: Offence and conflict talk

12: Conflict interaction: insights from Conversation Analysis

13: Conflict in political discourse: conflict as congenital to political discourse

14: Discourse features of disputing in small claims hearings

15: Leadership in conflict: disagreement and consensus negotiation in a start-up team

16: Interaction and conflict in digital communication

Section 3: Languages in conflict

17: Introduction: conflict with the stuff of language

18: Ethnicity, conflict and language choice: the case of northern Ghana

19: Language and conflict in the Mapuche context

20: Linguistic Landscape as an arena of conflict: language removal, exclusion and ethnic identity construction in Lithuania

21: "You are shamed for speaking it or for not speaking it good enough": the paradoxical status of Spanish in the US Latino community

22: Hate crimes: language, vulnerability and conflict

23: Language ideologies in conflict at the workplace

Section 4: Linguistics in conflict

24: Introduction: the potential for Linguistics to change conflict in the 'real' world

25: The value of linguistics in assessing potential threats in an airport setting

26: Threatening contexts: an examination of threatening language from linguistic, legal and law enforcement perspectives

27: Talk in mediation: metaphors in acrimonious talk

28: Conflicts of policy and self-representation in the UK asylum process

29: On agency, witnessing and surviving: interpreters in situations of violent conflict

30: The Irish language in Belfast: the role of a language in post-conflict resolution

Afterword

Index