Toy as discourse: children's war toys and the war on terror

Machin, D; van Leeuwen, T

Toy as discourse: children's war toys and the war on terror

Machin, D van Leeuwen, T

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Critical Discourse Studies, 2009, 6 (1), pp. 51 - 64
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Machin, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	van Leeuwen, T https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2163-8700	en_US
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dc.identifier.citation	Critical Discourse Studies, 2009, 6 (1), pp. 51 - 64	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	War toys of different eras realize the dominant discourses of war of the time, and they do so in a way which allows children to enact these discourses and values in play. This paper examines war toys over the past 100 years before providing a detailed multimodal analysis of contemporary war toys distributed around the planet, mainly by global American corporations, which teach children about the importance of the quick decisive strike, the role of the team and the morality of technology. Through this they convey how conflicts are resolved in today's world, and why. Early on children are recruited not just into the war on terror but also the values of corporate capitalism. The paper ends by looking at some ethnographic data where children play with guns.	en_US
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Abstract:

War toys of different eras realize the dominant discourses of war of the time, and they do so in a way which allows children to enact these discourses and values in play. This paper examines war toys over the past 100 years before providing a detailed multimodal analysis of contemporary war toys distributed around the planet, mainly by global American corporations, which teach children about the importance of the quick decisive strike, the role of the team and the morality of technology. Through this they convey how conflicts are resolved in today's world, and why. Early on children are recruited not just into the war on terror but also the values of corporate capitalism. The paper ends by looking at some ethnographic data where children play with guns.

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