Political metalanguage and the production of ideology
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The aim of this article is to describe the semiotic mechanisms of the semantic correlations that political communication creates in order to turn them into "political grammars" and, therefore, into "norms". It is therefore a matter of studying the transformation through operations of "synthesis of the heterogeneous" carried out by linking elements of political discourse with others belonging to semantic paradigms that are in principle completely alien to it, with the aim of producing explanatory generalisations of the political world as a whole. Such operations, which begin at the level of texts and end up producing political metasemiotics, are made possible by a specific property of language, namely that of its "elasticity".
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