Join language and politics experts across the United States as they discuss the 2020 election in this free online forum, launching Friday, October 9, 6pm (CST). The… Read More »Introducing “Talking Politics 2020” Online Forum
Link to Adam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power” column on Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/category/opinion/words-and-power/
Book information from Stanford University Press: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Trumpism has not only ushered in a new political regime, but also a new regime of language—one that… Read More »When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language by Adam Hodges (SUP, 2019)
Please see the following for an end-of-year index of Adam Hodges’s Trumped Up Words columns on the Anthropology News website. Adam assures us there are more… Read More »Adam Hodges’s 2017 “Trumped Up Words” columns
Anthropology News Column by Aaron Ansell In late 2016, I noticed a peculiar convergence between Brazilian and US politics. In both countries, the political right… Read More »AN News: Right-wing Politics in Brazil: Iconization and Accusations of Corruption
From Anthropology News Trump’s Formulaic Twitter Insults Trumped Up Words Adam Hodges Every presidential transition also involves a change in the regime of language. This… Read More »AN News: Trump’s Formulaic Twitter Insults
Anthropology News Column On campus violence, language, and the climate of fear. Monday was my birthday. I was taking a walk along the river near my… Read More »AN News: “Run, Hide, Fight” by Anna M. Babel (The Ohio State University)
A report on Fox News intimates that a course using Jane Hill’s Everyday Language of White Racism is problematic. It is not clear from the… Read More »Everyday Language of White Racism in the news
In 2011 the American Dialect Society listed ‘the 99%’ among its Words of the Year. In 2012 ‘47%’ became the new politically-charged number. These numbers… Read More »Where have all the numbers gone? (Or 1 + 99 = 53 + 47)
The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer says conservative Evangelical Christians view President Obama as “the avatar of godless socialism”. Do American Christian conservatives use ‘socialist’ to… Read More »Another possible definition of “socialist”
NPR’s Morning Edition and the Sunlight Foundation suggest that congressional speech-making is becoming less sophisticated. The presentation appears to validate conventional wisdom that American politics… Read More »Sophmoric application of readability tests
“Socialism” and “liberalism” are poorly defined in US politics; the former is over-applied to left-of-center positions, and the latter used in two almost reverse ways.… Read More »On socialism, liberalism, and neo-liberalism
Ingrid Piller at Language on the Move looks and English-medium news coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent declaration, “Multikulti ist absolut gescheitert.” Piller says… Read More »Multikulti in context