Lukin War and Its Ideologies

A Social-Semiotic Theory and Description
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-13-0996-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

Reihe: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series

Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends. The power of ideology comes from its intimate relation to language: ideology recruits all semiotic modalities, but language is its engine-room. Drawing on Halliday's linguistic theory - in particular, his account of the 'semiotic big-bang' - this book explains the latent semiotic machinery of language on which ideology depends. The book illustrates the ideological power of language through a study of perhaps the most significant and consequential of our ideologies: those that enable us to legitimate, celebrate, even venerate war, at the same time that we abhor, denounce and proscribe violence. To do so, it makes use of large multi-register corpora (including the British National Corpus), and the reporting of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Australian, US, European, and Asian news sources. Combining detailed text analysis with corpus linguistic methods, it provides an empirical analysis showing the astonishing reach of our ideologies of war and their profoundly covert and coercive power.


?Annabelle Lukin is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University. She teaches grammar and meaning, as well as general linguistic theory. She has lectured in China and Latin America, and is a regular commentator on language matters in the Australian media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lukin, Annabelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Dedication;6
2;Preface;7
3;Acknowledgements;13
4;Contents;15
5;List of Figures;18
6;List of Tables;20
7;Chapter 1: Language, Linguistics and Ideology;23
7.1;1.1 Introduction: Ideology, War, and Violence;23
7.2;1.2 A Sociological Account of War and Violence;26
7.3;1.3 The Problem of Language in Sociology/Critical Theory;29
7.4;1.4 The Problem of Ideology in Linguistics;30
7.5;1.5 Three Models of the Relationship Between Language and Ideology;33
7.5.1;1.5.1 Model 1: Ideology and Language as Distinct Phenomena;34
7.5.2;1.5.2 Model 2: Partial Overlap Between Language and Ideology;35
7.5.3;1.5.3 Model 3: Language and Ideology Inextricably Intertwined;38
7.6;1.6 The Case Study: Data and Method;41
7.7;1.7 A Linguistic Approach to the Problem of Ideology;48
7.8;References;50
8;Chapter 2: The Quest for Meaning in Twentieth Century Linguistics;54
8.1;2.1 Introduction: Out of the Buzz and Hum …;54
8.2;2.2 Valentin N. Vološinov (1895–1936);56
8.3;2.3 Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913);58
8.4;2.4 Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942);61
8.5;2.5 John Rupert Firth (1890–1960);62
8.6;2.6 Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941);66
8.7;2.7 Basil Bernstein (1924–2000);69
8.8;2.8 Conclusion;73
8.9;References;73
9;Chapter 3: Ideology in a Socio-semiotic Linguistic Theory;76
9.1;3.1 Introduction;76
9.2;3.2 Language: Matter and Meaning Intertwined;78
9.3;3.3 Ideology in the Architecture of Human Language;81
9.4;3.4 Ideology in Langue and in Parole;86
9.5;3.5 Ideology in the Act of Meaning: Register and Semantic Variation;92
9.6;3.6 Conclusion;98
9.7;References;98
10;Chapter 4: War and Violence: Etymology, Definitions, Frequencies, Collocations;102
10.1;4.1 Introduction;102
10.2;4.2 War in the Dictionary and Thesaurus;104
10.3;4.3 Violence in the Dictionary and Thesaurus;110
10.4;4.4 War and Violence: Word Frequencies and Dispersion;113
10.5;4.5 War and Violence: Collocational Patterns;116
10.6;4.6 Conclusion;125
10.7;References;126
11;Chapter 5: Ideology in the Act of Meaning;128
11.1;5.1 Introduction: Text-in-Context;128
11.2;5.2 Tenor, Field and Mode in ABC Text;134
11.3;5.3 The Textual Function;137
11.3.1;5.3.1 Patterns in Theme;138
11.3.2;5.3.2 The System of DETERMINATION;142
11.3.3;5.3.3 Cohesion;143
11.3.4;5.3.4 The System of INFORMATION;147
11.4;5.4 The Ideational Function;148
11.5;5.5 The Interpersonal Function;154
11.6;5.6 Conclusion;157
11.7;References;159
12;Chapter 6: A Counter-Ideology: War as Violence;162
12.1;6.1 Introduction: When War Is Violence;162
12.2;6.2 The Textual Function;166
12.2.1;6.2.1 Patterns in Theme;166
12.2.2;6.2.2 Cohesion;171
12.3;6.3 The Ideational Function;174
12.4;6.4 The Interpersonal Function;177
12.5;6.5 Conclusion;179
12.6;References;180
13;Chapter 7: Configurative Rapport: The “Existential Fabric” of War;181
13.1;7.1 Introduction: Never the Twain Shall Meet;181
13.2;7.2 The Dissociation of War from Violence;185
13.2.1;7.2.1 ABC v Robert Fisk: Keyword Analysis;191
13.3;7.3 The Grammatical Characteristics of War;192
13.3.1;7.3.1 How Are Perpetrators of the Violence Construed?;202
13.3.2;7.3.2 Processes of War: Assault, Strike, Invade, Attack, Bomb and Kill;204
13.4;7.4 Conclusion;212
13.5;References;214
14;Chapter 8: Language in the Legitimation of War;216
14.1;References;220
15;Appendices;221
15.1;Appendix 1: Collocations of War and Violence in British National Corpus;221
15.2;Appendix 2: ABC Text (T1);228
15.2.1;The Textual Function;228
15.2.2;The Ideational Function;236
15.2.3;The Interpersonal Function;247
15.3;Appendix 3: News Article by Robert Fisk (T2);252
15.3.1;The Textual Function;252
15.3.2;The Ideational Function;266
15.3.3;The Interpersonal Function;284
15.4;Appendix 4: Additional Tables for Chap. 7;293
16;Index;296