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Talking terrorism: A dictionary of the loaded language of political violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2005

Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Affiliation:
Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709, [email protected]
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Philip Herbst, Talking terrorism: A dictionary of the loaded language of political violence. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood, 2003. Pp. xvii, 220. Hb $49.95.

Talking terrorism (TT) is not the kind of book typically reviewed in this journal. It is not explicitly about the analysis of language; rather, it is an illustration of the way language can persuade, manipulate, and corrupt. Nor is it written in the expository form expected of scholarly discourse, but instead emulates the form (if not the function) of a dictionary: an alphabetized series of entries, many followed by cross-references.

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BOOK REVIEW
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Language in Society , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 638 - 641
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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