Language and Power 1

The text book for this course is:

Power is:

• Only about dominance

• In the hands of a few people

• Jointly produced

Hegemony...

• describes how dominant groups persuade subordinate groups

• makes values of dominant groups appear unnatural

• is something people never consent to

Discourse is:

• similar to phonology

• language use in context

• the rules of grammar

Ideology is:

• the same as discourse

• the intersection of people's beliefs and social structures

• a product of free will

An example of a repressive state apparatus is...

• the police

• your mother

• the media

An example of an ideological state apparatus is...

• the army

• the animal kingdom

• the family

Interpellation is...

• a process of arranging people

• a process of hailing people as 'subjects'

• a process of oppressing people