'Because it's easier to kill that way': Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics.

This article examines the blunt conceptual instrument of dehumanizing American military terms for the enemy in the context of the Vietnam War and the Global War on Terror. I examine language that dehumanizes American service members themselves, who are semiotically framed as expendable. Next, I expl...

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Publicado en:Language in Society Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 583 - 604
Autor principal: McIntosh, Janet
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Sep2021
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