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The various chapters of the volume have demonstrated the power of war in impacting language, and the power of language to not only shape how we talk about war but also how we experience war, how we use language to represent war, and how we grapple with the legacies of war. This conclusion briefly considers what perspectives can be gained from a consideration of the diverse discourses of war, what is offered by new methodologies and perspectives on studying language at war, and argues for the value of placing multi-disciplinary approaches to language and war in conversation with each other. It also considers where scholarship on language and war can go next.
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‘Alan Jones launches on-air defence of Israel Folau’, The West Australian, 8 May 2019.
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Ross J. Wilson (2013), Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain (Farnham: Ashgate), p. 54.
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See, for example, Mark Dapin’s (2019) recent book on the impact of myth in relation to understanding of Australia’s Vietnam War, Australia’s Vietnam: Myth vs History (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press). In Amanda Laugesen’s (2005) Diggerspeak: the Language of Australians in War (Melbourne: Oxford University Press), p. xvii, I note that many memoirs of the Vietnam War tend to incorporate, especially in included wordlists and glossaries, American terms, including those associated with post-Vietnam War American popular culture, such as the use of the term Rambo.
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Laugesen, A., Fisher, C. (2020). Conclusion: Languages of War. In: Laugesen, A., Fisher, C. (eds) Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23890-2_11
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