The Routledge handbook of language and politics
In: Routledge handbooks in linguistics
In: Routledge handbooks
Introducing the language-politics nexus; Part I. Theoretical approaches to language and politics; 1. Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the beginning of modernity; 2. From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser; 3. Jürgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and deliberative democracy; 4. Michel Foucault: discourse, power/knowledge and the modern subject; 5. Jacques Lacan: negotiating the psychosocial in and beyond language.