Add to ORKGBook synopsis: Violence is in language and violence is language. The violence of language stratifies voices into those that matter and those that do not, using ideas of appropriate form and structure as its weaponry. It claims propriety and politeness are the correct mode of address, when urgency and anger are what is needed. Where languages intersect, hierarchies of language become means for domination and colonization, for othering, suppression, negation, and obliteration. The demand for a correctness of grammar, the refusal to see what is seen as incorrect, the dismissal of vernacular in favour of the homogenised tongue: all are violent. The narrative of history is a narrative of violence. The contributions herein refuse this narrative....
The plays of Bernard-Marie Koltès centre on difficult family relations, violence, seduction, the nee...
Drawing on contemporary research from across the social sciences and the humanities, including contr...
Abstract. In this article a clear line between two terms “verbal aggression” vs. “verbal violence” i...
VIOLENCE IS IN LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE IS LANGUAGE. The violence of language stratifies voices into th...
In her recent book, Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary (2012), Ann Murphy suggests that the ph...
Book synopsis: Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fas...
In Derridian thinking violence is perpetrated by the dominant partner in a hierarchy: the ’Original ...
Book synopsis: “Parler, c'est agir” is an old rhetorical commonplace. Speech is generally regarded a...
This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by...
Book synopsis: As a concept, 'Trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A ...
Focuses on the need to give attention to the mechanism of violence by listening to the materiality o...
International audienceWhat can we say about those marked by the violence of language or whose distre...
This text takes the notion of 'narrative' as foundational to conflict analysis and resolution. Disti...
Book synopsis: Why has violence – particularly against women – become exponentially more prominent a...
When language is used in communication events, there also as an ideological distiction and a desire ...
The plays of Bernard-Marie Koltès centre on difficult family relations, violence, seduction, the nee...
Drawing on contemporary research from across the social sciences and the humanities, including contr...
Abstract. In this article a clear line between two terms “verbal aggression” vs. “verbal violence” i...
VIOLENCE IS IN LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE IS LANGUAGE. The violence of language stratifies voices into th...
In her recent book, Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary (2012), Ann Murphy suggests that the ph...
Book synopsis: Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fas...
In Derridian thinking violence is perpetrated by the dominant partner in a hierarchy: the ’Original ...
Book synopsis: “Parler, c'est agir” is an old rhetorical commonplace. Speech is generally regarded a...
This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by...
Book synopsis: As a concept, 'Trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A ...
Focuses on the need to give attention to the mechanism of violence by listening to the materiality o...
International audienceWhat can we say about those marked by the violence of language or whose distre...
This text takes the notion of 'narrative' as foundational to conflict analysis and resolution. Disti...
Book synopsis: Why has violence – particularly against women – become exponentially more prominent a...
When language is used in communication events, there also as an ideological distiction and a desire ...
The plays of Bernard-Marie Koltès centre on difficult family relations, violence, seduction, the nee...
Drawing on contemporary research from across the social sciences and the humanities, including contr...
Abstract. In this article a clear line between two terms “verbal aggression” vs. “verbal violence” i...