Citations:peacespeak

English citations of peacespeak

Noun: "the jargon of pacifism and anti-war discourse"

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• 1987, Leonard I. Sweet, The Lion's Pride: America and the Peaceable Community, Abingdon Press (1987), →ISBN, page 38:

  […] the chief purpose of our armed forces would be not to "win wars" but to "avert wars," our leaders would be talking to us in "peacespeak," not "nukespeak," […]

• 1989, David Lyon, "Against The Stream", Third Way, Volume 12, Number 4, April 1989, page 17:

  At the same time, we must not be uncritical of 'peacespeak' which sometimes glosses over the stark realities of painful choices in a fallen world.

• 1991, Robert B. Coote, In Defense of Revolution: The Elohist History, Ausburg Fortress (1991), →ISBN, page 58:

  The court recorders of Solomon's peacespeak were unaware of the lives of villagers.

• 2000, Folia Linguistica, Volume 34, Mouton (2000), page 141:

  What is needed in replacement of "Warspeak" is not an equally crude and militant "Peacespeak", but judicious use of normal language, allowing for fine-grained selection and discrimination, for urbanity and finesse.

• 2001, Eamon Delaney, The Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service, 1987-1995, New Island (2001), →ISBN, page 336:

  But love-bombing, the Unionists couldn't handle. The long arm of 'friendship' is much more insidious. Irish nationalism takes many forms and peacespeak is just one of them.

• 2001, India Today, Volume 26, page 100:

  Whenever he is with a visiting dignitary — Pakistan is a favoured destination for quite a few these days — the K word makes a conspicuous appearance in his peacespeak.

• 2004, Hans Pienaar, Ching Chong Che, Content Solutions (2004), →ISBN, page 37:

  "Belligerents" as they are called in peacespeak, also discovered that one acquired new status by announcing one's vile deeds, or, more cautiously, the vile deeds of the neighbouring clan.