i-vi -- Preface: Language as forms of death -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: A peace of word -- I. War discourse -- Liberal parasites and other creepers: Rush Limbaugh, Ken Hamblin, and the discursive construction of group identities -- Threat or business as usual? A multimodal, intertextual analysis of a political statement -- Deixis and distance: President Clinton's justification of intervention in Kosovo -- The language of atomic science and atomic conflict: Exploring the limits of symbolic representation -- The politics of discontent: A discourse analysis of texts of the Reform Movement in Ghana -- When guilt becomes a foreign country: Guilt and responsibility in Austrian postwar media representations of the Second World War -- Remembering and forgetting: The discursive construction of generational memories -- II. Language wars -- Attitudes towards linguistic purism in Croatia: Evaluating efforts at language reform -- Wars, politics, and language: A case study of the Okinawan language -- Language choice and cultural hegemony: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in Palau -- "Keep your language and I'll keep mine": Politics, language and the construction of identities in Cyprus -- Advertising for peace as political communication -- American warriors speaking American: The metapragmatics of performance in the nation state -- Conclusion: Word peace -- Name index -- Subject index