A touch of class: The erasion of group-based social inequality as a hegemonic process in political discourse

Jef Verschueren

doi:10.1075/prag.13.1.06ver

ISSN 1018-2101
E-ISSN: 2406-4238

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The erasion of group-based social inequality as a hegemonic process in political discourse
Author(s): Jef Verschueren
Source: Pragmatics, Volume 13, Issue 1, Jan 2003, p. 135 - 143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.13.1.06ver

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This paper describes how political discourse, as manifested in the policy statements of two Flemish political parties which assign to themselves the epithet ‘social’, contributes to the erasion of group-based or class- related forms of social inequality. A brief comparison with the academic defense of ‘Third Way’ politics (in the work of Anthony Giddens) leads to the suggestion that we are witnessing a hegemonic process.

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Article Type: Research Article

Keyword(s): Class; Diversity; Hegemony; Political Discourse; Social Inequality

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