Chapter 5
Lexical strategies in the discourses of the Third Way
Article outline
- 5.1Political lexis: Politics as semantic struggle
- 5.2The conceptualisation of the Third Way as a lexico-semantic frame
- 5.3The Realisation of the Third Way frame in Germany and the UK
- 5.3.1Ideological publications and party conference speeches
- 5.3.2The Third Way semantic frame in political competition: Election manifestos
- 5.4Ideological decontestation – redefinitions and
recontextualisation of lexical elements
- 5.5Evidence of context-sensitivity of political lexis in the
Schröder-Blair paper
- 5.6Metalinguistic comments as indicators of an ongoing ideological battle
between Schröder and Lafontaine
- 5.7The lexis of election manifestos – A corpus linguistic
view
- 5.7.1Actors and actions in the manifestos
- 5.7.2Keywords –indicators for political culture, political competition and
ideological change?
- 5.8Political lexis and political myth: re-, rück- and wieder-derivations as signifiers for a
golden-age myth
- 5.9Conclusions: Political lexis and political culture
-
Notes