Philip Herbst, Talking terrorism: A dictionary of the
loaded language of political violence. Westport, CT & London:
Greenwood, 2003. Pp. xvii, 220. Hb $49.95.
Talking terrorism (TT) is not the kind of book
typically reviewed in this journal. It is not explicitly about the
analysis of language; rather, it is an illustration of the way language
can persuade, manipulate, and corrupt. Nor is it written in the expository
form expected of scholarly discourse, but instead emulates the form (if
not the function) of a dictionary: an alphabetized series of entries, many
followed by cross-references.