Code Words in Political Discourse

I argue that code words like “inner city” do not semantically encode hidden or implicit meanings, and offer an account of how they nonetheless manage to bring about the surprising effects discussed in Mendelberg 2001, White 2007, and Stanley 2015 (among others).

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khoo, Justin Donald
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115436
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7066-2462