Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AI - Jazykověda

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

978-80-8106-047-2

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

82-93

Počet stran knihy

275

Název nakladatele

Univerzita Komenského

Místo vydání

Bratislava

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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