The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market: 147 - Rilegato

George, David

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ISBN 10: 0415679974 ISBN 13: 9780415679978

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415679974
• ISBN 13: 9780415679978
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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