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Language makes reality
"Does this argument seem strange? One reason it might is that we often consider language no more than mere effusions of breath, a representation
of reality, not reality itself, and therefore incompetent to be the motive force behind social change. (...) For those still immured in this perspective, the suggestion that there might be more than one way to construct meaning is meaningless, threatening, or bizarre.
The common conception of language as abstract and impotent seems to support this argument. But our passionate opposition to any new understanding of meaning-making gives the lie to that comforting old belief."
Lakoff, 2000, p. 19-20
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"...there is an informal rule that whoever publicly makes the first interpretation, especially
if it is a personage of influence, generally gets the meaning-making rights."
Lakoff, 2000, p. 27
How to appologize?
"These choices are language politics in action: the way we determine who bears the responsibility for a mishap, who owes what to whom, reflects current power differences among participants and creates their future relationships."
Lakoff, 2000, p. 24
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Academic Communication Class
October 5th, 2014
Andrea Figulová, Zuzana Maďarová
Institute of European Studies and International Affairs, FSES UK
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