@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/prag.13.1.06ver, author = "Verschueren, Jef", title = "A touch of class: The erasion of group-based social inequality as a hegemonic process in political discourse", journal= "Pragmatics", year = "2003", volume = "13", number = "1", pages = "135-143", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.13.1.06ver", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/prag.13.1.06ver", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1018-2101", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Class", keywords = "Social Inequality", keywords = "Hegemony", keywords = "Political Discourse", keywords = "Diversity", abstract = "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.", }