The Bereavement Discourse

What is it about?

This article presents the spectrum of the bereavement discourse, namely, how various social groups interpret the loss of their children’s lives or the potential risk to their lives posed by their military service and translate it into public discourse, as a spectrum of attitudes, and hypothesizes about its determinants.

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Why is it important?

The bereavement discourse may be a component of the ant-war discourse that mediates between casualty sensitivity and the igniting of collective action and shifts in public opinion. Both of them may lead to policy changes. In other words, analyzing this discourse is necessary for better understanding the casualty sensitivity syndrome.