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Spelling World Peace

Language as Architecture for Peace

The words we choose shape the worlds we build.

About This Book

About This Book

Spelling World Peace — Language as architecture for peace. How the words we choose shape the worlds we build. Forthcoming.

Key Themes

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in rigorous form: how linguistic structure primes perception, constrains imagination, and predetermines the range of available responses to conflict.
The hidden metaphors in ordinary speech do enormous work. Shepherd maps the subterranean metaphorical structures that govern political, interpersonal, and international discourse.
If language can entrench conflict, it can also dissolve it. The book proposes principles for consciously redesigning the language of public life toward greater clarity and cooperation.
World peace is not a distant political outcome — it is a daily linguistic practice. Shepherd reframes peace as something enacted in each communicative act.

Every word is a vote for the kind of world you want to live in.

— Corey Shepherd

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