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@inbook{926228, author = {Chovanec, Jan}, address = {Bratislava}, booktitle = {Identity in Intercultural Communication (Slovak Studies in English III), edited by: Ada Böhmerová}, edition = {1. vyd.}, keywords = {war rhetoric; front page analysis; lexical creativity; word play; media discourse analysis; legitimization; multi-modality; War on Terror; weapons of mass destruction}, howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"}, language = {eng}, location = {Bratislava}, isbn = {978-80-8106-047-2}, pages = {82-93}, publisher = {Univerzita Komenského}, title = {Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity}, year = {2011} }
TY - CHAP ID - 926228 AU - Chovanec, Jan PY - 2011 TI - Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity VL - Slovak Studies in English III PB - Univerzita Komenského CY - Bratislava SN - 9788081060472 KW - war rhetoric KW - front page analysis KW - lexical creativity KW - word play KW - media discourse analysis KW - legitimization KW - multi-modality KW - War on Terror KW - weapons of mass destruction N2 - 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 of weapons of mass destruction. ER -
CHOVANEC, Jan. Weapon of Ms Destruction: The Subversive Role of Linguistic Creativity. In \textit{Identity in Intercultural Communication (Slovak Studies in English III), edited by: Ada Böhmerová}. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2011, s.~82-93. Slovak Studies in English III. ISBN~978-80-8106-047-2.
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