Political Neologism

As in the French language in general, the political vocabulary is changing constantly and regularly sees reveal new expressions and neologisms.

Sometimes created without partisan purposes, these new terms and neologisms policies may also be due to an active policy communication, the purpose of advertising or media propaganda. Political ideas are often disseminated through these new terms and neologisms to be broadcast by the media. This release allows propagation of the ideology underpinned by the creation of the neologism.

In fact, these new expressions and these neologisms are generally used by a board policy, and rejected by others.

Some apply directly to a person, others are created to support an idea.

The new terms and neologisms sometimes cross the language barriers, and can spread on a transnational scale.

The neologism as a means of political expression

All the words of the language were first neologisms. Then there is the popularity of the expression that allows him to get "official" status, and enter ... dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Neologisms are sometimes neutral (or ouiste canonists), is politically loaded and intended to convey an idea.

The political expressions

Easier to disseminate their ideas, politicians and influential groups sometimes use expressions. Thus expressions War on Terror ( War against terrorism in French) Islamophobia (to create a link between criticism of religion and racism), ultra-liberalism (to appear extremist defense of liberalism), or ratonnade anti-white (which is a misuse of the original meaning of ratonnade, which means racist violence against North Africans) are expressions of political connotations. They can, when taken up by the media, the dissemination of ideology across society, and allow for some deformation of the original meaning.

Among the political expressions, there is also the one that turns the original meaning of a word. Thus, the name Islamist is no longer used in the sense that he had in the seventeenth ^century and now favors the relationship between Islam and some political violence.

This is also true that the word young in the political vocabulary and political correctness is used as a synonym for offender from suburban ^{Neologisms technocratic}

Neologisms are sometimes euphemistic. Thus the term homeless (to qualify the homeless and tramps), now common in France, is a term coined by the state institution having the effect of social categorization which is not the concept of poverty and misery.

The term social is another term coined by the institution, which, by the use of the adjective positive social euphimises the concept of redundancies associated ^Broadcasting interlanguage

The new terms or neologisms sometimes cross borders.

It may happen that some words appear in their language of origin, after passing into other languages. This applies, for example, the term governance (of Greek and Latin), which existed in Old French. This term is often used since the 1990s in circles of the UN , the World Bank , the IMF and big business multinationals. This term is frequently used in the context of globalization. As a term inherited from the Old French is a new term rather than a neologism itself.

The term War on Terror, invented by George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York was resumed under the term war against terrorism in France. The Axis of Evil (Axis of Evil) is a famous expression. It allows you to designate a few countries in the world, little appreciated by the United States, as inspired by the devil or demon. The sounding of religious expression gives a moral inspired by God against the targeted countries.

Conversely, the government of Iran calls the U.S. the Great Satan and Israel Mother of Satan , to literally demonize.

The English expression Flexicurity in Danish origin , arrived in France to become flexicurity (or flexicurity).

Examples

Related to someone

• Raffarinade , a term coined on that of " truism "calling, especially in the political press, certain statements of Jean-Pierre Raffarin to be unintentionally comic platitudes particularly flat, verbal blunders or failed attempts immortal words; derogatory term seeking ridicule the speech Jean-Pierre Raffarin , the word phonetically inspired Mazarinade concerning Mazarin.
• Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozyist , Le Pen, Villepin mean more or less neutral supporters as the context of those policies
• Chiraquie, a term referring pejoratively the entourage of Jacques Chirac and by extension its mode of government.
• Bushisms designates in mocking the mistakes of George W. Bush during his interviews.
• Busherie, a term referring pejoratively policy of George W. Bush and the war in Iraq (by the proximity with the term phonetic butchery )
• Lepenization minds, referring to the gradual acceptance, real or perceived, of the theses of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the French.
• Omniprsident, short for "ubiquitous" and "president", a derogatory term used by political opponents of Nicolas Sarkozy to describe his presidency and its media coverage they consider excessive.

Related to a concept or ideology

• Consum'actors , which defines the neologism citizens who use their purchasing power to exercise a power-cons.
• Dmocrature , a term denoting a caricature of democracy or a democracy closer to a dictatorship (see also prsipaut ).
• right-of-l'hommiste to criticize organizations and movements, citing human rights but which would do service for other purposes, such as SOS Racisme to his critics.
• Flexicurity , which can combine the concepts of flexible jobs and "security career path."
• Islamophobia , which amalgamates hostility towards Islam and hostility towards Muslims.
• Ouiste and canonists, which were applied to opponents and supporters of the EU Constitutional Treaty
• Ripoublique, a term coined by Jean-Marie Le Pen to qualify him as the Republic of ripoux.
• Ultraliberalism to denigrate the promoters of liberalism , particularly the economic liberalism.
• Videocracy : In contemporary societies, the videocracy means a political system dominated by the "power of images."

Other

• Preposterous , a neologism coined by Arthur Rimbaud and revived today by Jacques Chirac (suggested by Dominique de Villepin ) to characterize an idea without merit.
• Bravitude, barbarism then converted neologism used by Sgolne Royal during the 2007 presidential campaign , by means Jack Lang "fullness of a sense of bravery" . The term "bravitude" was subsequently taken by the Organising Committee (Chinese) for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing , which stressed the "bravitude" of the Chinese athlete Jin Jing.
• Inherited, trentagnaire, fatitude, conquering, neologisms used by Nicolas Sarkozy during the presidential campaign of 2007 .
• Pschitt , onomatopoeia used by Jacques Chirac to characterize an argument collapses.
• AIDS sufferers, controversial term coined by Jean-Marie Le Pen ^, to describe patients AIDS.
• The rilance of Christine Lagarde about economic policy made by France and Revival of fiscal restraint in 2010 .

References

Notes

Related articles

• consum'actors
• propaganda
• political slogan
• Political Rhetoric
• List of political expression in the U.S.

External Links

• An interview of Pierre Bourdieu , published in Liberation, 19 October 1982.

Bibliography

• What talking means - The economy of linguistic exchanges, Pierre Bourdieu , Fayard, 1982 - ISBN 2-213-01216-4

• Portal Policy
• Sociology Portal

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