Politics and language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’
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Durant, A. 2006. Politics and language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’. Critical Quarterly. 48 (2), pp. 85-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00708.x
Type | Article |
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Title | Politics and language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’ |
Authors | Durant, A. |
Abstract | Broad questions of political deception and trust in public figures are examined in this article, with reference to a momentary but explosive interlude in British political life: a series of calls for the resignation of Home Secretary Charles Clarke in April 2006 following allegations that he had misled the public during a BBC2 'Newsnight' interview about the release of foreign nationals from UK prisons. Wider issues concerning accuracy in public communication are drawn out from the example discussed, and a notion of public ‘meaning troublespots’ is outlined (as developed further in the author's 'Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate', CUP, 2010). |
Research Group | Law and Politics |
Publisher | Wiley |
Journal | Critical Quarterly |
ISSN | 0011-1562 |
Publication dates | |
19 Jul 2006 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 10 Oct 2011 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00708.x |
Language | English |
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