Abstract:Political language encompasses the words that political actors use in public life. Office holders use these words to maintain control and challengers use them to propose change. Citizens come to know their political environments through repeated interactions with these messages. Over time and across cultures, political language has been shown to exert power over people as it shapes and sanctions worldviews, holds coalitions together, and makes mass action possible.
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