Use of Language and Political Work
Personal Capability to do Political Work
Becoming a involves making sense of complex social situations, and being able to talk about them so as to influence others. Doing the work refers to engaging in a «kind» of work and carrying a certain «level» of responsibility. The «kind» of work is defined by the 6 Instruments for exerting political pressure.
«» of political work is a different notion that belongs in a different Satellite that focuses on work and its organisation
are derives from communication capabilities.
is no different from any other work if we consider its fundamentals. All work depends on to recognize what has to be done, as well as to cooperate with &/or lead others to generate the desired result. The complexity of the reality to be worked on determines the () that is most appropriate. Not surprisingly, human capability to perform work is distributed unevenly among people, and this determines the sort of work that they choose.
People working in the political sphere have to create and deliver «social products»—as distinct from «intellectual products» developed by academics and the knowledge economy, or «tangible products» from conventional manufacturing and service industries. See more about work in different domains.
Work that engages all in society demands speaking and thinking in a way that allows everyone to feel that they understand what is being said. This approach to the is named «». Political work also involves activating people and that calls for the «Gestalt» approach. In all there are 7 «levels» of work required to handle societal institutions.
Not all social products are political products.
- Advertising is virtually non-political but must take care of political sensitivities depending on the client and the product.
- Film studios can make deliberately political, accidentally political, and wholly apolitical productions.
- Television: news and current affairs programs are inherently political, but game shows, soap operas, and quiz shows are not.
- Daily newspapers and weekly news magazines have both political and non-political sections.
- Most magazines are non-political, but there are specialist political periodicals dealing with political personalities, political parties, public policy and foreign policy.
Use of Language in Politics.
Apart from work and work capability, it seems possible that each of the channels for is associated with particular ways of using language. The terms in the table below refer to in the Principal Typology PH'5 within .
In this Table, which must be regarded as speculative, is the most important, being required by four channels. and and are used in two, and the remaining four Types are used only once.
| Group | Channel of Communication | Preferred Use of Language |
|---|---|---|
| CG-21 | L'1-Concrete (for certainty) L'2-Associational (amongst friends) L'4-Universal (to persuade) |
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| CG-22 | L'3-Conceptual (for technical issues) L'4-Universal (to persuade) |
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| CG-23 | L'1-Concrete (for certainty) L'3-Conceptual (for proposals) |
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| CG-24 | L'4-Universal (to persuade) L'5-Gestalt (to activate) |
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| CG-25 | L'4-Universal (to persuade) | |
| CG-26 | L'5-Gestalt (to activate) L'6-Formal (for clarity) L'7-Mythic (to imprint) |
Originally posted: August-2009; Last updated: 5-July-2014.
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