LANGUAGE AND POLITICS: A CORRELATION

Language and Politics: A Correlation



List of Topics

Linguistics - Dichotomies and language

Linguistics - Levels of theoretical linguistics

Linguistics - Diachronic linguistics

Linguistics - Applied linguistics

Linguistics - Contextual linguistics

Typological universals in acquisition

Development of the International Phonetic Alphabet

Beginnings of modern linguistics in the 19th century

* Behaviorism and mental tabula rasa hypothesis

* Chomsky and functionalism

Language and Politics: A Correlation

Differences in Language and Gender

Language and Politics: A Correlation

Introduction

There are many different ways to approach the connections between language and politics, all of them to some extent involving different contexts and all of them in some ways connected. One way is to look at political language as a form of rhetoric, to see how politicians seek to persuade their audiences (Atkinson, 2004). Another way is to apply aspects of discourse analysis to political data; this involves looking at typical structures within political language and seeing how politicians show ideological stances through their language choices, whether these choices are conscious or unconscious.

Purpose of the Study

The study will explore the language and its political dimensions, its political use and misuse and its multiple political aspects.

Methodology

Methodology refers to the procedures used to research an issue, a research question, or hypothesis. It is the way that a topic is investigated or researched. There have been many different methodologies used to investigate political communication, and there are many ways to classify these methodologies. I will use both-qualitative and quantitative research methods for my paper.

Language and Politics: A Correlation-Brief Literature Review

Few words in English carry such negative connotations as the word politician. “Connotation” refers to the level of meaning based on associations we attach to words, whereas “denotation” is the referential meaning, the barest core of a word's meaning. A denotative definition of the word politician might be something like “a person who is practically engaged ...