Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics

Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages.

Conal Condren's fifth and final volume in a decades-long examination of political language, Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics is a study of the mechanisms of change in political vocabularies over time. Though the main focus of the study is on English political vocabulary, Condren also compares political terms in other languages, such as French...