The effects of neutral versus value-laden concepts on public attitudes

• Main Author: Halldórsson, Viðar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Stjórnsýslustofnun 2020
• Subjects: Sociology of knowledge; political discourse; normalization; conceptual literacy; Félagsfræði þekkingar; orðræðugreining; viðmiðabinding; hugtakalæsi; Halda; Iceland
• Online Access: https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/irpa/article/view/a.2020.16.2.2

Politicians deliver their messages through the use of language with the intention of creating public support for their ideas and actions. Politicians, therefore, apply certain concepts, in preference to others, to mark certain phenomena in a specific way in the common discourse. Therefore, concepts...