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Merriam-Webster defines ‘ideology’ as ‘1: a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture; 2: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group or culture.’

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Webster, J.J. (2015). Thinking About Language. In: Understanding Verbal Art. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55019-5_1

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