From boot camp battle cries to euphemisms on the battlefield, the U.S. military relies on “kill talk”—a robust linguistic infrastructure to strip individuality, suppress empathy, and normalize violence, long before they ever fire a shot.
- Necropolitics and the Language of Death: How Military Talk Turns Recruits Into Killers
- Janet McIntosh - Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology
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