A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

a profoundly political act and speaks in the name of the people, even if it can scarcely be claimed that he is a committed write ...

comes to teaching). Finally, the concept has a direct political interest: it aims to grasp the state of the linguistic class str ...

it: dare to communicate, know how to communicate – such is the watchword of our liberal modernity. The promises held out are ent ...

improve their ability to communicate (we have all seen enticing publicity that promises us success if we improve our linguistic ...

egalitarian, their intentions toward one another are basically good and their interests are basically shared. If those condition ...

Language: wooden and woollen The French phrase langue de bois[wooden language] is well known. It is a polemical expression that ...

This ‘globalisation of nonsense’ is obtained by the operation of woollen language, defined by Huyghe as follows: ‘it has an answ ...

The third is tautology. Thus, openness is good because it is open, or openness is openness.^20 Self-referentiality ‘naturalises ...

democratic athleticism, as Deleuze and Guattari put it; woollen language is so irenic that it suffocates meaning. Spin The word ...

The first characteristic is theannouncement effect. Calculated leaks or press articles written by politicians themselves anticip ...

The seventh is the choice of assertionsrather than open questions. We might expect a consultation to offer choices, to suggest a ...

We must not exaggerate the effect of these manipulations: they are visible and provoke resistance. But they should convince us o ...

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Index advertising 65, 103, 136–8, 145 agôn/eirene 55, 121, 124, 201 Albert, Michel 37n15 alienation (Marx) 93 Althusser, Louis 1 ...