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| "War On Terror" And Other Catchphrases; Dissection by George Lakoff, Linguist | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 26 2004, 10:24 PM (129 Views) | |
| sylley2000 | Aug 26 2004, 10:24 PM Post #1 |
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
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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 | Aug 26 2004, 10:29 PM Post #2 |
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Winemaker Extraordinaire
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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 | Aug 27 2004, 04:42 AM Post #3 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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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. |
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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater | |
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| bikemanb | Aug 27 2004, 04:56 AM Post #4 |
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Interesting read, his positions on many things are a little to the Left for me but this:
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. |
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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. Benjamin Franklin | |
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| olstuf | Aug 27 2004, 06:14 AM Post #5 |
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Bill
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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".
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| cmoehle | Aug 27 2004, 07:03 PM Post #6 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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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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