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novapsycheLooking for a Put-Down? Nouns Beat Phrases: Research Suggests Labels Influence Our Views of Others
This takes me back to my first sociology course, Deviance & Social Control. Labels are definitely powerful.
I also look at this from a linguistic perspective. How might I use this in poetry, perhaps? Or how have I? In "Conversation at the End of the Vale," I use the made-up word "murmurist." In my head I was echoing the label of "terrorist."
I have a feeling (certainly looking through the lens of Norms of Rhetorical Culture) that calling someone a Communist in the 1950s had a similar feel. This phenomenon of labeling something as Other--we humans love to do it. We like to identify things so that we may better deal with them. Demarcate where we end and they begin.
This takes me back to my first sociology course, Deviance & Social Control. Labels are definitely powerful.
I also look at this from a linguistic perspective. How might I use this in poetry, perhaps? Or how have I? In "Conversation at the End of the Vale," I use the made-up word "murmurist." In my head I was echoing the label of "terrorist."
I have a feeling (certainly looking through the lens of Norms of Rhetorical Culture) that calling someone a Communist in the 1950s had a similar feel. This phenomenon of labeling something as Other--we humans love to do it. We like to identify things so that we may better deal with them. Demarcate where we end and they begin.