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Showing posts with label political speeches. Show all posts

Showing posts with label political speeches. Show all posts

Saturday, October 24, 2009

More slants on language

In the Sachzwang thread, we ended by briefly talking about Heinrich Böll's critique of language as a tool for overt or covert political...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The role of speeches

This thread is a spin-off from the Clinton vs. Merkel thread. In the latter, a consensus seems to be emerging that when it comes to the chan...

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