Vassal states,traitors and enemies of the people: the current political lexicon is a reminder of the dangers of populismIn his noteworthy lexicon, Keywords, or the current Left critic Raymond Williams urged us in 1976 to look for “networks of usage,reference and perspective” in language, to consider interrelated words and references” in “a cluster”, or to heed “the explicit but as often implicit connections which people [are] making.
As 2017 draws to a close,it is remarkable to reflect on the speed with which Brexit has spawned its own distinctive vocabulary, freighted with menace and denigration of dissent. No one word does the job. They work as a team.
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Source: guardian.co.uk