Wodak, Ruth (1989) “1968: The power of political jargon – a “Club-2” discussion” in Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse (ed.) Ruth Wodak: 137-163. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Introduction

Political groups need their own language and portray themselves via this language; they define their territory by means of their language; they signal their ideology through certain slogans and stereotypes; their ideological structure is joined together in a certain way and so is their argumentation. – 137

1. Political jargon-myth-ideology-text

1.1  Ideology

We shall use “ideology” and “myth” synonymously as described by Lemberg (1983) and Mannheim (1978). For both these authors these terms mean “systems of ideas which constitute and pilot the large power-blocks of our society.” (Lemberg 1983: 41) – 140

1.2 Democracy and ideology – Bordieu’s concept

1.3 Jargon

1.3 Further characteristics of jargon

2. The institution “club-2” and its significance

2.1 The setting

2.2 Presentation of self and image

3. The “club-2” of June 13^th, 1978

4. Rudi Dutschke: “A socialist tries to find his role in society

4.1 Text-level: argumentative strategies and self-representation

4.2 Lexical level

4.3 Syntactic level

4.4 Summary

5. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the “active fighter – never say die”!

5.1 Argumentative strategies and self representation: Text level

5.2 Lexical level

6. Summary