Framing the Issues
Bonnie Azab Powell,
UC Berkeley News,
Oct 31, 2003
I write a lot about meaning and language. While part of it has to do with dry topics, such as how we can find learning objects through use-based meaning, other parts of it are much meatier, looking at the values and ideas we pass onto children. I am not alone in this. George Lakoff, for example, is sensitive to relation between language and politics. By dictating the terms of national debate. "Language always comes with what is called 'framing.' Every word is defined relative to a conceptual framework. If you have something like 'revolt,' that implies a population that is being ruled unfairly, or assumes it is being ruled unfairly, and that they are throwing off their rulers, which would be considered a good thing. That's a frame." Be sure to follow the link at the bottom of the page to a second article expanding on the idea.
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