language and war
type: Concept
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: war in American culture

war in American culture
type: Concept
narrower: language and war

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: language and war