Language, Power and Ideology : Studies in Political Discourse Hardback
Edited by Ruth Wodak
Part of the Critical theory series
Hardback
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The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences.
The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral).
This reader contains papers on a variety of topics, all related to each other through explicit discussions on the notion of ideology from an interdisciplinary approach with illustrative analyses of texts from the media, newspapers, schoolbooks, pamphlets, talkshows, speeches concerning language policy in Nazi-Germany, in Italofascism, and also policies prevalent nowadays.
Among the interesting subjects studied are the jargon of the student movement of 1968, speeches of politicians, racist and sexist discourse, and the language of the green movement. Because of the enormous influence of the media nowadays, the explicit analysis of the mechanisms of “manipulation”, “suggestion”, and “persuasion” inherent in language or about language behaviour and strategies of discourse are of social relevance and of interest to all scholars of social sciences, to readers in all educational institutions, to analysts of political discourse, and to critical readers at large.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:01/12/1988
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- ISBN:9789027224132
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:01/12/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027224132
