9 Questions
Ideology is closely connected with ___________
language
Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process whereby an act, process, or ideology becomes legitimate by its attachment to norms and values within in given society. It is the process of making something acceptable and ___________ to a group or audience
normative
Many of Thatcher's policies were based upon an appeal to common sense, coupled with ___________
anti-intellectualism
Ideology according to Thompson J. B. maintains class relations by concealing them with the help of the following strategies that embrace: ___________ is the act of providing legitimacy
Legitimation
The first communicative function of ideology is to turn socially constructed, politically motivated, and fluid ideas into taken-for-granted assumptions, beliefs, and ___________
meanings
Rational Grounds – appealing to the legality of enacted rules and using a chain of reasoning to persuade the audience of the validity of existing social ___________
relations
Thatcher was commonly perceived as having the qualities required to get the job done – the Iron Lady
Thatcher was one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers we have ever had, but was commonly perceived as having the qualities required to get the job done – the Iron Lady
The Nazis did not kill Jews, they normalized them; Americans did not destroy Vietnamese villages, they disassembled them; Thatcher did not give away nationalized industries, she introduced popular capitalism; and Blair is not about to sell education to private industry, but to modernize it
Test your knowledge of the interconnectedness of language and ideology in cross-cultural communication. Explore how language reflects, constructs, and maintains ideological patterns, and how it shapes assumptions, beliefs, and meanings in society.
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