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Ethnography, discourse, and hegemony
Edited by Jan Blommaert †, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck and Jef Verschueren
[Pragmatics 13:1] 2003
► pp. 135–143

A touch of class

The erasion of group-based social inequality as a hegemonic process in political discourse

This paper describes how political discourse, as manifested in the policy statements of two Flemish political parties which assign to themselves the epithet ‘social’, contributes to the erasion of group-based or class- related forms of social inequality. A brief comparison with the academic defense of ‘Third Way’ politics (in the work of Anthony Giddens) leads to the suggestion that we are witnessing a hegemonic process.

Keywords: Political Discourse, Social Inequality, Class, Diversity, Hegemony
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Published online: 1 March 2003
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