David Delaney

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Emanatian, Michele and David Delaney 2008 What message does ‘send a message’ send? Journal of Language and Politics 7:2, pp. 290–320 | Article
The violent acts of post-modern war are sometimes represented as long-distance communication. This paper examines the phrase send a message and others like it when used to refer to bombings, firing missiles, shooting civilians, etc. The metonymic reduction of killing and destroying to… read more