Political Language and Political Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6097920 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murray Edelman (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Pages | 10-19 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096500021247 |
| OpenAlex | W2110450891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 5 |
The most incisive twentieth century students of language converge from different premises on the conclusion that language is the key creator of the social worlds people experience, and they agree as well that language cannot usefully be understood as a tool for describing an objective reality. For the later Wittgenstein there are no essences, only language games. Chomsky analyzes the sense in which grammar is generative. For Derrida all language is performative, a form of action that undermines its own presuppositions. Foucault sees language as antedating and constructing subjectivity. The “linguistic turn” in twentieth century philosophy, social psychology, and literary theory entails an intellectual ferment that raises fundamental questions about a great deal of mainstream political science, and especially about its logical positivist premises.While the writers just mentioned analyze various senses in which language use is an aspect of creativity, those who focus upon specifically political language are chiefly concerned with its capacity to reflect ideology, mystify, and distort. The more perspicacious of them deny that an undistorting language is possible in a social world marked by inequalities in resources and status, though the notion of an undistorted language can be useful as an evocation of an ideal benchmark. The emphasis upon political language as distorting or mystifying is a key theme in Lasswell and Orwell, as it is in Habermas, Osgood, Ellul, Vygotsky, Enzensberger, Bennett, and Shapiro
Comprehension approach · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Language education · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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How are language constructions constitutive? Strategic uses of conventional discourses about immigration
Language and political reality
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On the Limits to Inequality in Representation
Eugenics and Disability Discrimination
The 1984 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Election Studies
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Patients and doctors
Aportes de la Lingüística Aplicada al Estudio del Poder
Politics ex cathedra
Diverging Projections of Reality
Artificial intelligence and knowledge management
Pathos, death talk and palliative care in the assisted dying debate in Victoria, Australia
Governing Quality in Teacher Education
Mystifying but not misleading
It Is Not Only What You Say, It Is Also How You Say It
Leadership and Organizational Culture
Affective News
L'analyse automatisée du ton médiatique
Constituency Influence in Parliament
Performative Ethics in the Trump Era
Waging word wars
Mídia e eleições
The Globo Television Network and the Election of 1998
Stand Up and Be Counted
Justice Judgments as Complex Psychocultural Constructions
The Postmodern Politics of Context Definition
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2024 (40) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |