Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms
The present article seeks to establish the cognitive value and the communicative message of genocide related terms with the account of the extra-linguistic factors. Terms like slaughter, massacre, ethnic cleansing, physical annihilation, killings, deportations are used to present and discuss both p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Yerevan State University
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Armenian Folia Anglistika |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4470 |
| Summary: | The present article seeks to establish the cognitive value and the communicative message of genocide related terms with the account of the extra-linguistic factors. Terms like slaughter, massacre, ethnic cleansing, physical annihilation, killings, deportations are used to present and discuss both pro-Turkish attitudes of and neutral or pro-Armenian standpoints of great humanists and friends of Armenians. Still another intent of ours is to show that the terms genocide and democide which realize a specifically highlighted cognitive function, are the most appropriate ones to best define the disastrous events of 1915 on the territory of West (Turkish) Armenia.
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| ISSN: | 1829-2429 2579-3039 |