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| Political language: Political language encompasses rhetoric, vocabulary, and communication strategies used by politicians and institutions to convey ideas, shape opinions, and influence public perception. It often involves persuasive techniques, framing, and the strategic use of words or symbols to advance specific agendas. See also Frame theories, Frames, Persuasion, Rhetoric._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Michael Freeden on Political Language - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 14 Political Language/Freeden: [Students of ideology] have noted how new readings of wellestablished political terms such as ‘natural rights’ have shifted alongside a transformed understanding of what (if anything!) is natural in human social conduct. While this may allow the emergence of the unpredictable, the appreciation of historical development has also alerted students of ideology to the diachronic constraints on ideologies, channelling some ideological change into recognizably stable patterns. Conceptual history: The school of conceptual history (Koselleck, 1985(1); Richter, 1995(2)) has been influential in identifying key historical periods when a struggle over the ‘correct’ political and social concepts occurs, and in reconstructing the meaning of such concepts over time. In parallel John Pocock (1972)(3) has investigated the ways in which political languages have changed over time. Cultural Anthropology: Cultural anthropologists, on their part, have highlighted the symbolic and often non-verbal nature of ideologies, in addition to portraying them as mapping devices that impose integrated fields of meaning on political occurrences (Geertz, 1964)(4). Ideologies were now regarded as contained in practices and in cultural symbols as well as in oral and written texts, thus extending the disciplinary boundaries from which analytical methodologies for their investigation could be extrapolated. Poststructuralism: Finally, poststructural philosophers have regarded ideology as a modernist expedient that offers a narrative necessary to preserving the social order, itself often considered to be a fiction or a social imaginary. >Ideology/Freeden. 1. K Koselleck, R. 1985. Futures Past. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2. Richter, M. 1995. A History of Political and Social Concepts. New York: Oxford University Press. 3. Pocock, J. G. A. 1972. Politics, Language and Time. London: Methuen. 4. Geertz, C. (1964) ‘Ideology as a cultural system’. In D. E. Apter, ed., Ideology and Discontent. New York: Free. Freeden, M. 2004. „Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Freeden, Michael Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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