Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

language and war  

Definition

  • Joseph Heller's book Catch-22 (1961) made famous the peculiar nature of military language. A World War II veteran, Heller invented characters who dealt with improbable combinations of words that led to officers named Major Major and tackled entirely new situations that seemingly exhausted the possibilities of the English language. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Language and War]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JPQ9Q2VS-V

Download this concept: