Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Defining Peace: Perspectives from Peace Research; 2 Discourse Analysis as Ideology Analysis; 3 Foreign Policy by Metaphor; 4 A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Editorials on the Lebanon 1982 Crisis; 5 The 'Balance' Metaphor in Relation to Peace; 6 Promising to End a War=Language of Peace? The Rhetoric of Allied News Management in the Gulf War 1991; 7 Establishing Linguistic Markers of Racist Discourse; 8 Power and Ideology in Different Discursive Practices
Summary
A study of how critical discourse analysis can elucidate the relationship between language and peace. It argues that language is a factor to be considered, along with social and economic factors, in any examination of the social conditions and institutions preventing the achievement of peace
