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SHOCKED AND AWED
How the War on Terror and JihadHave Changed the English Language
FRED HALLIDAY
June 2010224 pages 216 x 134mm
Paperback £12.999781848850316
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From ‘Asymmetric Threat’ to ‘WMD’: a revealinglook at the new language that has become partof our lives
Far more than just a military conflict, the ‘War on Terror’has been a struggle over values and meanings, a desperatecontest for hearts and minds in which language hasbecome the battlefield. In this highly original book, FredHalliday takes us on a tour of this new war–zone, itsartillery and trenches, minefields and booby–traps.Drawing on years of painstaking collation, Halliday showshow the ‘War on Terror’ has brought us not just new words,such as ‘Gitmo’, and new imports, such as ‘jihad’, but alsonew ways of using existing language, such as ‘extraordinaryrendition’. Scanning the pock–marked semantic landscapeof the post 9/11 world, he uncovers hidden twists ofphrasing and word associations, which in themselves tell astory about the violent clash of ideologies that has markedthe opening of the 21st century. Part indispensablereference, part polemic, part entertaining snapshot of ourtimes,
Shocked and Awed 
is a bristling arsenal of the 21stcentury’s most potent weapons: words.
Fred Halliday
is Professor Emeritus in InternationalRelations at the London School of Economics, and aResearch Professor at the Barcelona Institute forInternational Studies.
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