Publications

Publication details [#14427]

Ilie, Cornelia. 1998. The ideological remapping of semantic roles in totalitarian discourse, or, how to paint white roses red. Discourse & Society 9 (1) : 57–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | institutional language | semantic role

Language as a subject

Romanian

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

An analysis of three instances of linguistic manipulation: de-agentivized active constructions, agentless passive constructions and agentless reflexive passive constructions. The impact of these meaning violations on social reality is discussed.