Political vocabularies : word change and the nature of politics
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Political vocabularies : word change and the nature of politics
University of Rochester Press, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p.173-189) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages.
Conal Condren's fifth and final volume in a decades-long examination of political language, Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics is a study of the mechanisms of change in political vocabularies over time. Though the main focus of the study is on English political vocabulary, Condren also compares political terms in other languages, such as French, German, Latin, Greek, Italian, and Japanese, and discusses how some of theseterms are imported into English. Considering concrete examples of extension and intension of meaning, neologism, euphemism, translation, loan words, and metaphor as used in political discourse, Condren constructs a theoretical model of the political that describes what precisely goes on when political words are used or when words are used politically. Thus Condren's analysis in this study is not merely linguistic but it bears on perennial questions about the nature of politics.The book will thus appeal not only to linguists and political scientists but to a broad readership of those interested in history, politics, and philosophy.
Conal Condren is Emeritus Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and honorary professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Scope of the Political
A Changing System of Words
The Idea of a Conceptual Model
Extension and Salience
Neologism
Euphemism: Symptom and Taboo
Euphemism: Accusation and Redescription
Loan Words and Translation
Metaphorical Incursion and Migration
Metaphorical Imposition and Entanglement
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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