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Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F11%3A00051881" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/11:00051881 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity

  • Original language description

    The article provides a contextualized analysis of a front page from the British daily newspaper Daily Mirror, which categorizes a British government minister as a 'weapon of Ms destruction'. This ad hoc formation ? based on word play ? is one of many productive modifications of the phrase 'weapons of mass destruction' that appeared in 2003 at the time of the impending war in Iraq. The lexical creativity that underlies such modification is interpreted as an instance of word play that has a subversive potential to undermine the official government propaganda. It is shown that the modified phrase fits into the newspaper?s consistent anti-war stance and encapsulates its critical view of the official pro-war policy that was based on the alleged existence ofweapons of mass destruction.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

    AI - Linguistics

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2011

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Identity in Intercultural Communication (Slovak Studies in English III), edited by: Ada Böhmerová

  • ISBN

    978-80-8106-047-2

  • Number of pages of the result

    12

  • Pages from-to

    82-93

  • Number of pages of the book

    275

  • Publisher name

    Univerzita Komenského

  • Place of publication

    Bratislava

  • UT code for WoS chapter