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George, David

 
9780415679978: The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0415679974 ISBN 13 : 9780415679978
Editeur : Routledge, 2014

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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À propos de l'auteur

David George is Professor of Economics at La Salle University, USA.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415679974
ISBN 13 
9780415679978
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
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