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2. Political linguistics - Wikipedia

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   These political parties will then be part of a system of communication between the state and the governed, which helps them influence opinions and also their power. [1] [3] Hence, political linguistics is a tool of persuasion in politics, especially in speeches and campaigns. When studying political linguistics, one can pay attention to the ...

3. Norman Fairclough - Wikipedia

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   Norman Fairclough (/ ˈ f ɛər k l ʌ f /; born 3 April 1941) is an emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University.He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as applied to sociolinguistics.

4. Language politics - Wikipedia

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   [25]: 9 Their book, Critical Toponymies, is, according to them, the 'first interdisciplinary collection published in English that tackles explicitly place naming as "a political practice par excellence of power over space"', and gathers research from various scholars about the politics inherent in the naming of places.

5. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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   Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [a] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most ...

6. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory - Wikipedia

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   Chomsky defines three levels of success for any linguistic theory. These are "observational adequacy" (i.e. correctly picking out the valid linguistic data that linguists must work on), "descriptive adequacy" (i.e. assigning clear structural description to elements of sentences) and "explanatory adequacy" (i.e. justifying, with the help of a principled basis, the selection of a descriptive ...

7. Jason Stanley - Wikipedia

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   Jason Stanley (born 1969) is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. [1] [2] He is best known for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, [3] which often draw upon and influence other fields, including linguistics and cognitive science.

8. Interventions (Chomsky book) - Wikipedia

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   Published in May 2007, Interventions is a collection of 44 op-ed articles, post-9/11, from September 2002, through March 2007. The book's subjects span from 9/11 and the Iraq War to social security and intelligent design, South America and Asia, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the election of Hamas, Hurricane Katrina, and the US concept ...

9. Government and binding theory - Wikipedia

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   Government and binding (GB, GBT) is a theory of syntax and a phrase structure grammar in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s.