Routledge
The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market
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- David George
- Routledge
- Paperback
- 9781138791497
- 9 X 6 X 0.5 inches
- 0.65 pounds
- Business & Economics > Economic History
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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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