Politics and language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’
Durant, Alan 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-4718
(2006)
Politics and language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’.
Critical Quarterly, 48
(2)
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pp. 85-90.
ISSN 0011-1562
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(doi:10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00708.x)
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Abstract
Broad questions of political deception and trust in public figures are examined in this article, with reference to a momentary but explosive interlude in British political life: a series of calls for the resignation of Home Secretary Charles Clarke in April 2006 following allegations that he had misled the public during a BBC2 'Newsnight' interview about the release of foreign nationals from UK prisons. Wider issues concerning accuracy in public communication are drawn out from the example discussed, and a notion of public ‘meaning troublespots’ is outlined (as developed further in the author's 'Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate', CUP, 2010).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > School of Law > Law and Politics |
| ISI Impact: | 0 |
| Item ID: | 8172 |
| Notes on copyright: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:
DURANT, A. (2006), Politics and Language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’. Critical Quarterly, 48: 85–90. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00708.x, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00708.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
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| Depositing User: | Devika Mohan |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2011 06:21 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 02:08 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/8172 |
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