Wodak Ruth (ed.) Language, Power and Ideology

John Benjamins, 1989. — 299 p.The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader contains papers on a variety of topics, all related to each other through explicit discussions on the notion of ideology from an interdisciplinary approach with illustrative analyses of texts from the media, newspapers, schoolbooks, pamphlets, talkshows, speeches concerning language policy in Nazi-Germany, in Italofascism, and also policies prevalent nowadays. Among the interesting subjects studied are the jargon of the student movement of 1968, speeches of politicians, racist and sexist discourse, and the language of the green movement. Because of the enormous influence of the media nowadays, the explicit analysis of the mechanisms of manipulation, suggestion, and persuasion inherent in language or about language behaviour and strategies of discourse are of social relevance and of interest to all scholars of social sciences, to readers in all educational institutions, to analysts of political discourse, and to critical readers at large.Notes on contributionLanguage and totalitarism
Structures of consensus-making and intervention: the concept of Nazi language policy in occupied Holland (Christopher Sauer)
Language policy during the facist period: the case of language education (Gabrielle Klein)
The political speech of Futurism and its relationship to Italian fascism (Rosuta Rindler Schjerve)
War with words (Herbert E. Brekle)
Language of politics/ or politicians
Some remarks on linguistic strategies of persuasion (Karl Sornig)
Credibility and political language (Werner Holly)
1968: The power of political jargon - a "Ckub 2" discussion (Ruth Wodak)
Phonological variation in parliamentary discussion (Sylvia Moosmuller)
Social prejudice as a resource of power: towards functional ambivalance of stereotypes (Uta M. Quasthoff)
Institutions, control and discourse in specific settings
Mediating racism. The role of the media in reproduction of racism (Teun A. Van Dijk)
Manipulation strategies in newspapers: a program for crytical linguistics (Florian Menz)
The case of W. A critical journey to border between psychiatry and justice (Ernst Strouhal)
Revising the patriarchal paradigm. Language change and feminist language politics (Marlis Hellinger)