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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1. Epistemological Foundations; Introduction to Part 1; 1. Political Power, Institutions and Socio-economic Organizations; 1.1. Explanations of the emergence of political power; 1.2. The State, the achieved form of political power; 1.3. The State as outdated form of political power: the new social powers; 1.3.1. The relationships between economic power and politicalpower; 1.3.2. Displacement of the capacity for action from the State to multinational corporations? |
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1.3.3. Technological proliferation and organizational mutations: the emergence of new powers?1.3.4. The emergence of a fourth power through the development of new collective, discursive and decisional spaces: the media?; 2. Subjective and Intersubjective Power; 2.1. The concept of relational power, a concept of subject or subjects?; 2.2. Interactions, translations and exchanges: locations, situations and manifestations of relational power; 2.3. A desirous subject driving a relational power; 3. Discursive Power: Words, Languages, Controls and Arguments |
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3.1. The active power of language in and of itself3.1.1. The efficacy of words; 3.1.2. Terminological mastery and the power of knowledge; 3.2. The power of language in operation; 3.2.1. Performative speech acts?; 3.2.2. The construction of discourse within rhetoric; 3.3. The predominance of social frameworks in the exercise of linguistic power; 3.3.1. The control of language and the resulting conflict; 3.3.2. Linguistic competence, an instrument of social reproduction; 3.4. The symbolic and analogic power of language: acting on the imagination, feelings and desire |
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PART 2. Mobilizing the Concept of Power in ICSIntroduction to Part 2; 4. Linguistic Power in ICS; 4.1. Authority figures; 4.1.1. The genesis of the concept of the figure; 4.1.2. The power of the authority figure; 4.2. The circulation of epic stories and the instrumentalization of metaphors; 4.2.1. Stories and the construction of representations; 4.2.2. Metaphors, invocation, and naturalization; 4.3. The stimulation of desire, the manipulation of self-esteem, and the instrumentalization of identities; 4.3.1. Individual identity: recognition and instrumentalization of the relation to the self |
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4.3.2. Collective identity: the manipulation of the desire to belong4.4. The concealment or even prohibition of alternative language; 4.4.1. The dominance of authorized language; 4.4.2. Naturalization and unthought; 4.4.3. The control of discursive spaces; 4.5. The fields and spaces for the exercise of communicational influence; 4.5.1. The marketing approach in light of the "publicness" principle17; 4.5.2. The manipulation and influence of actors in organizations; 5. Power, Society, and Developments in ICT; 5.1. The emergence of the "information society." |
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5.1.1. Are digital technologies the foundation for the construction of the information society? |
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Power (Social sciences)
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Communication -- Social aspects.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Information society.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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sociolinguistics.
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Communication -- Social aspects
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Information society
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Power (Social sciences)
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Sociolinguistics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119610373 |
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1119610370 |
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