FIve Language, politics and values Marilyn Gregory This chapter discusses a specific example of the politicisation of social policy. I contend that shifts in language that have taken place across different policy sectors, at different rates, over the past three decades, give us access to transformations in the underpinning values of policy work. Thus I consider the nature of the language, the knowledge and the values of policy – using the probation service as a case example – to analyse ‘policy politics’. This chapter links the specific case with wider
This chapter: explores theories of language development from Skinner, Bandura, Chomsky, Pinker and Bruner; considers how neuroscience has changed our understanding of language development in children and adolescents; examines the ways in which babies and young children learn language and shows how brain studies have extended this knowledge; shows how learning other languages extends our cognitive capacity; argues that children need a supportive environment where they hear and can respond to language in order to develop their linguistic capacity
There were more colons used in legislation in 2015 than there were words enacted in 1900. Using analysis from machine readings of all legislation enacted between 1900 and 2015, this book discusses the social impact of increasingly elastic legislative language on the contemporary workings of the British constitution.
The hot-button debates of our time — from immigration to European integration, to the creeping power of judges — have, at their core, battles over what policy instructions are authoritative.
The book encourages readers to connect the dots of British statecraft, and to understand how, exactly, public demands are transferred into laws that are then implemented with greater and lesser degrees of success. Crucially, it shows that vague legislation has a tremendous impact on policy delivery, disproportionately affecting the weakest, in areas including immigration, homelessness and anti-discrimination.
1 1 Language as a Contested Site of Belonging Two contradictory relations between language and community This book examines how language is incorporated into the process of challenging and redrawing a community’s boundary. As Anderson (1991) once described so evocatively, language is intimately tied to the notion of community and continues to capture our imagination when we talk about what community is and who belongs to a community: What the eye is to the lover – that particular, ordinary eye he or she is born with – language – whatever language history
Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as “welfare state” and “social security” but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy language in specific countries and regions of the world and how do social concepts travel between countries?
Addressing such questions in a systematic manner for the first time, this edited collection, written by a cross-disciplinary group of leading social policy researchers, analyses the concepts and language used to make sense of contemporary social policy. The volume focuses on OECD countries located on four different continents: Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North America. Combining detailed chapters on particular countries with broader comparative chapters, the book strikes a rare balance between case studies and transnational perspectives. It will be of interest to academics and students in social policy, social work, political science, sociology, history, and public administration, as well as practitioners and policy makers.
German state from 1919 on, denotes the intention to restore the values of classicism, the legacy of Schiller and Goethe, as if they had remained unscathed. Against this attitude, Benjamin mobilizes another tradition, a repressed one: that of the baroque, in which historical violence was not camouflaged under harmonious aesthetic theories, but rather flaunted. ( Bolle, 1986 : 9) Ursprung ist das Ziel To be radical is to grasp things by the root. Marx (1843-1844/1967 : 257) My language, is German. My culture, my attainments are German. I considered myself a
161 8 Language for humanity It is early summer, 2019, a steamy evening in the public gallery of the Shoalhaven Council building in the New South Wales town of Huskisson. Elected councillors are discussing applications for commercial developments and requests for houseowners to cut down trees that hinder views. They also deliberate a motion to disqualify a community newspaper from receiving Council revenue because councillors have been offended by their critics in the newspaper. The chair of the meeting is the town Mayor, who represents the Greens party
Key messages Language and culture are two important factors in commercial relationships, especially trade and tourism. This article adds to the growing literature on budding Sino-Caribbean relations by exploring the importance of linguistic and cultural understanding to nurturing this relationship. It argues that Caribbean countries cannot take for granted that English will always be the lingua franca for Chinese-Caribbean relations given China’s expanding global footprint. The article makes recommendations on ways to mitigate linguistic and cultural
, publications on mega-events outside of these prime cities are less frequent. On top of this, the attention in the literature on mega-events in China is relatively one-sided. For instance, the Chinese-language literature mainly focuses on two issues: on the one hand, this literature criticises event-induced dispossessions and economic inequalities; on the other, it discusses urban spatial and economic developments triggered by the mega-events under state–market growth coalitions (for example, Zhang et al, 2007 ; Chen et al, 2010 ; Zhou, 2010 ; Bao and Li, 2012 ). At the
3 ONE Introduction: how language works in politics there is one thing more, about which the Society has been most sollicitous; and that is, the manner of their Discourse: which, unless they had been very watchful … had been soon eaten out, by the luxury and redundance of speech. The ill effects of this superfluity of talking, have already overwhelm’d most other Arts and Professions; insomuch, that when I consider the means of happy living, and the causes of their corruption, I can hardly forbear recanting what I said before; and concluding, that
