How political language creates reality

Is everything populist now?
Terms such as “right-wing,” “populist,” and “cancel culture” shape debates, often before it is clear what they actually mean.
Words create reality: This lecture shows how politics and its actors struggle for interpretive authority in discourse, how performative language blurs the boundaries between opinion and manipulation, and why linguistic precision is not a luxury in abstract political discourse, but a democratic necessity. Here, Klaas Bojert, a political science student at the University of Osnabrück, provides us with an overview and insight into this topic.

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