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The identity of the political language, compared to other types of anguage
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Abstract The existence of a political language implies recognising a stability of the linguistic code, outside the concrete situations of communication. Anyone who listens to the speech of a politician ascertains that he uses particular wording and phrases, manifests fondness for specific topics, makes appea... view more
The existence of a political language implies recognising a stability of the linguistic code, outside the concrete situations of communication. Anyone who listens to the speech of a politician ascertains that he uses particular wording and phrases, manifests fondness for specific topics, makes appeal to a specific rhetoric, employs an adequate intonation, all aimed at facilitating the achievement of his objectives. The audience recognises immediately this type of language, which means that the political language has a distinctive identity, at the level of the content and of the expression as well, compared to the other types of language, even if, often, it valorises the contents and the expressions specific to these languages. In our study, we present a contrastive analysis of the political language, compared to other types of language (scientific, philosophical, religious, legal, artistic), aimed at identifying the defining notes, but also the convergence area that exist among them.... view less
Keywords
language; language policy; taxonomy; analysis
Classification
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 35-46
Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 45
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.45.35
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed