Noua limbă de lemn a discursului politic
The New Wooden Language of Political Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The new wooden language that defines the actual political discourse makes use of stereotype formulae as it obsessively repeats some words/ expressions until they become meaningless. This is the inevitable effect of a manner of speaking, that of using “latest fashion terms” in political discourse, on the one hand, and in ordinary speech, on the other hand, both aspects proving a lack of culture and the spreading of bare forms. Appart from this rigid language reflected in the actual political discourse and in the unjustified adoption of foreign words, remains of a wooden language can still be identified today in linguistic violence and emphatic nationalist discourse. On the other hand, there is the reverse phenomenon of a rebellious attitude and anti-stereotype position, also sustained by mass-media.

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