On the Ideological Subject

Kate Khatib and John Duda, 08.02.2003 06:26

A political analysis of conflicts at the Pacifica radio network using the theories and methodologies of discourse analysis
and speech act theory.

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This paper, written within an academic context, was an attempt to bring politics into linguistic/pragmatic/discourse science, and to simultaneously bring these scientific methodologies into the domain of the political. The paper examines the conflicts at the Pacifica radio network (a non-commercial, largely radical group of radio stations in the U.S. where recent attempts by its National Board at mainstreaming and corporatizing were successfully defeated by the work of broadcasters, workers, listeners, and supporters.) Using this as an example, it develops a
theory of the "ideological subject" as an effect of discourse and power relations, and attempts to highlight the different positions taken with respect to this subject by the two sides in the Pacifica struggle.

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