THE RHETORIC OF THE RIGHT by David George ( 9781138791497 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE RHETORIC OF THE RIGHT
LANGUAGE CHANGE AND THE SPREAD OF THE MARKET

By:

David George

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

22 August, 2014

Pages:

224

Description:

This study demonstrates the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift.

Synopsis:

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times, starting in 1900. It is not always obvious how the changes identified necessarily reflect a stronger prejudice toward laissez-faire free market capitalism, and so much of the book seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which the changing language indeed carries with it a political message. This analysis is made through exploration of five major areas of focus: "economics rhetoric" scholarship and the growing "behavioral economics" school of thought; the discourse of government and taxation; the changing meaning of "competition," and "competitive"; changing attitudes toward labor; and the celebration of growth relative to the decline in attention to economic justice and social equality.

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Routledge

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