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"War On Terror" And Other Catchphrases; Dissection by George Lakoff, Linguist
Topic Started: Aug 26 2004, 10:24 PM (129 Views)
sylley2000
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/release...25_lakoff.shtml

I remember him for his article about framing--very bright man. It's a treat to read what he has to say. There was a shift at the DNC--heard some wonderful speakers, not the least of which was Barack Obama.

Sylvia
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brewster
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He has some good points, Sylley, but I wonder how he gets along now that he's amputated his entire right side? :blink:
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
The shift in the Dems was their abandonment of the working man to the Reps in an attempt to allure big business.

I'll read that piece later today, looks interesting.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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bikemanb
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Interesting read, his positions on many things are a little to the Left for me but this:

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The old definition of a conservative was someone in favor of maintaining the status quo, that is, upholding tradition and opposing major changes in laws and institutions. Are Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft et al. mainstream conservatives?

As I say in the new book, they're radicals. They're not trying to conserve anything. They're trying to impose a strict father model taken from a terrible, disastrous parenting method — one ruled by the use of abusive power and force — on America and the world. If you're disciplined enough to make enough money to buy good health care, you deserve it, and to buy a good education for your children, you deserve it. Otherwise you don't deserve it and you won't get it.

This goes against American egalitarianism and the idea of economic equity — that is, if people work hard and play by the rules, they should have a decent standard of living, assuming there's enough money in the economy as a whole. There is enough money in this economy. To deny good health care and education to people who work goes against the best in American policy. It's radical and it's un-American.


goes to the heart of the destruction of the Republican Party as I knew it, this group is doing to true Republican Conservativism what the Left Wing Wackos did to the Democrat party.
Bill, Rita and Chloe the Terror Cat

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

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olstuf
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Catch phrases have been successful forever. Politics, music and advertising all use them and with some success. Many do not look any farther than the phrase itself and allow it to become a tenet that others mold to their own benefit. The "Just say no!", "Boot Scootin' Boogie", Where's the beef?" are examples of catch phrases the were successful but not very good projects or products. We are a "headline" audience and most never get any farther. In the meantime, the country is "Going to hell in a handbasket". :angry:
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Even Lakoff calls it like it is: Bush et al are radicals.

Lakoff is always interesting, ingenius in tying language with politics, moral politics. He can wear the objective hat of a scientist, then take it off and say he, personally, is a liberal, a radical.
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