Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity
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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.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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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
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