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8 - Ideological Convictions and Language Use

from Part Two - Key Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2025

Julianne House
Affiliation:
Universität Hamburg/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics /Hellenic American University
Dániel Z. Kádár
Affiliation:
Dalian University of Foreign Languages/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics/University of Maribor
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Summary

In Chapter 8, we consider how sociopolitical ideological convictions impact on how social members such as political activists use language outside political institutions. Due to the popularity of social media, such non-institutionalised language use is becoming important and needs to be studied on a par with institutionalised political language use. Haidt insightfully argued that sociopolitical ideologies manifested through political conviction divide social members, and we believe that it is an important task for the pragmatician to capture this global dividing effect with the aid of strictly linguistic evidence. As a case study, we examine a clash between a radical animal rights protester and the organisers of a children’s party featured in social media. We show that the organisers of the party and the protester put moral oughts representing sociopolitical ideological convictions against one another in an irreconcilable way. Due to this irreconcilability, in their interaction they completely lack alignment with each other. In this case study, we also follow a contrastive view, by considering how clashes driven by sociopolitical convictions differ from more ‘mundane’ clashes.

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Language and Politics
A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Perspective
, pp. 133 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Ideological Convictions and Language Use
  • Julianne House, Universität Hamburg/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics /Hellenic American University, Dániel Z. Kádár, Dalian University of Foreign Languages/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics/University of Maribor
  • Book: Language and Politics
  • Online publication: 20 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009092180.008
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  • Julianne House, Universität Hamburg/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics /Hellenic American University, Dániel Z. Kádár, Dalian University of Foreign Languages/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics/University of Maribor
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  • Ideological Convictions and Language Use
  • Julianne House, Universität Hamburg/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics /Hellenic American University, Dániel Z. Kádár, Dalian University of Foreign Languages/Hun-Ren Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics/University of Maribor
  • Book: Language and Politics
  • Online publication: 20 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009092180.008
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