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Category Archives: Framing
Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa
Quote Details: William Hazlitt: Without the aid of… – The Quotations Page Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt English essayist (1778 – 1830) It’s always disconcerting … Continue reading
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Changes in word meaning and folk theories of reasonable mappings
On The Media In the parlance of Republican-primary politics, âsanctuaryâ? â as in sanctuary city â has become a bad word. … GEOFFREY NUNBERG: Well, sometime around 2005, 2006, you begin to hear people on the right using the word, … Continue reading
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From culture-specific to the universal in the US counter-insurgency manual
“Be polite, be professional, be prepared to kill.” Lt. Col. Nagel summarizing a new US Army counterinsurgency manual (on the Daily Show) This quote reminds of the critique of universalist pragmatics by Anna Wierzbicka. Wierzbicka and others (e.g. Goddard) points … Continue reading
Posted in Discourse - text, Framing, Linguistics, Social Science
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Girl Wars, Boy Wars
The Girl Wars : Terrible Mother on Offsprung.com It seems like half the interactions between women can be classified as Girl Wars. Do we ever get out of this? And why the hell are girls so vicious to each other? … Continue reading
Bi-furcated narrative frames in public policy debates
Confessions of a BBC liberal – Times Online There is a perfectly reasonable case for progressive liberal reform of penal policy. There is also a perfectly reasonable case for a stricter and more punitive penal policy. This programme was quite … Continue reading
Metaphoric inferencing in action and the negotiation of interpretive privilege
Making Light: Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers We have concluded that we have far too many suppliers, Malarkey again. Rimmer is inappropriately borrowing language from other industries, as though A&R were a construction firm and he’d noticed … Continue reading
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Schematic imagery as euphemistic framing in war news reporting
Analysis: Military Shows Gains in Iraq Despite political setbacks, American commanders are clinging to a hope that stability might be built from the bottom up—with local groups joining or aiding U.S. efforts to root out extremists—rather than from the top … Continue reading
Media and scenarios of public opinion formation
Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights – washingtonpost.com That may stem in part from the changing nature of society. When Caddell’s boss was president, there were three major broadcast networks. Today cable news, talk radio and the Internet have made … Continue reading
Negotiating image projections: Who has the power?
New Statesman – Who is the real Hillary? she is certainly the most extraordinarily self-disciplined politician I have ever watched in action. But then she has to be, because she must balance the projection of images of supposedly masculine US … Continue reading
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Negotiating scenarios of democracy
OpinionJournal – Peggy Noonan President Bush was hired to know more than the people, to be told all the deep inside intelligence, all the facts Americans are not told, and do the right and smart thing in response. That’s the … Continue reading
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