[Linganth] Natalia Knoblock on her book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today Sofiya Asher interviews Natalia Knoblock about Language of Conflict:
Discourses on the Ukrainian Conflict on the blog.
https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:
Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and
interrelated, this volume examines the patterns of public discourse in
Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of the Ukrainian Crisis in 2014. It
investigates the trends in language aggression, evaluation, persuasion and
other elements of conflict communication related to the situation. Through
the analysis of the linguistic features of salient discourses and prevalent
narratives constructed by different social groups, *Language of
Conflict* reflects
competing worldviews of various stakeholders in this conflict and presents
multiple, often contradictory, visions of the circumstances.

Contributors from Ukraine, Russia and beyond investigate discursive
representations of the most important aspects of the crisis: its causes and
goals, participants and the values and ideologies of the opposing
factions. They
focus on categorization, stance, framing, (de)legitimation, manipulation
and coping strategies while analysing the ways in which the stress produced
by social discord, economic hardship, and violence shapes public discourse.
Primarily focusing on informal communication and material gathered from
online sources, the collection provides insight into the ways people
directly affected by the crisis think about and respond to it. The volume
acknowledges the communicators' active role in constructing the (often
incompatible) discursive images of the conflict and concentrates on the
conscious and strategic use of linguistic resources in negative and
aggressive communication.
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