Political Language
POLITICAL LANGUAGE
Language is the life blood of politics. Political power struggles, and the legitimisation of political policies and authorities occurs primarily through discourse and verbal representations.
Power can either be exercised through coercion or what US commentator Walter Lippman termed in the 1930s the manufacture of consent.
Largely unable, and hopefully unwilling, to coerce; political authorities in so called democratic polities often need to manufacture consent in order to undertake their agendas. While this most obviously concerns relations between a government and its wider public, this process has profound effects on the workings inside governments and is an important aspect of socialisation into governmental work cultures.
Put simply the manufacture of consent is a language based process of ideological indoctrination.
While being astonishingly comprehensive, it is a remarkably subtle process. Discourse carries the very assumptions under which the......
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