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The central question of the study of political language concerns the merits of the widely accepted thesis that language can have a substantive, unconscious influence on political thinking. In what has preceded, I argued that the strong form of this thesis—that political language can determine political thought—is almost certainly false, and the weak form—that political language can influence thought—is so weak as to be in danger of being empty. What is called for is a theory of how language can influence thought and some way of determining what sorts of language can be expected to have such an influence.
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Geis, M.L. (1987). Conclusion. In: The Language of Politics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4714-2_10
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