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This book examines the role of everyday language, governmental rhetoric, and professional language in creating dubious beliefs about the causes, nature, consequences, and remedies for poverty and related social problems. Incorporating recent social science concerns with phenomenology and structurali...

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Main Author: Edelman, Murray J. (Murray Jacob), 1919-2001
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Academic Press, ©1977.
Series:Institute for Research on Poverty monograph series.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics.
Political psychology.
United States > Social conditions.
Sociolinguistique.
Psychologie politique.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
sociolinguistics.
Political psychology
Social conditions
Sociolinguistics
United States
Politische Sprache
Taalgebruik.
Politiek.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book examines the role of everyday language, governmental rhetoric, and professional language in creating dubious beliefs about the causes, nature, consequences, and remedies for poverty and related social problems. Incorporating recent social science concerns with phenomenology and structuralism, the book analyzes the nature and dynamics of complex cognitive structures engendered in public officials, professionals, administrators, and the general public through recurring categorizations, metaphors, metonyms, and syntactic structures.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 164 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780122306624
0122306627