The language of politics and the politics of language: Unpacking ‘social exclusion’ in new labour policy
The language of politics and the politics of language: Unpacking ‘social exclusion’ in new labour policy
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政治语言和语言政治：解读新劳工政策中的“社会排斥”
DOI：
10.1080/13562570600796812
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
J. MacLeavy
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作者：
J. MacLeavy
自1997年新工党当选以来，社会排斥概念在制定福利政策方面发挥了决定性作用。政府话语中对其术语的迅速吸收，标志着对物质贫困的更广泛理解从现有的不平等和劣势概念转变为对物质贫困的更广泛理解，其中还包括（或优先考虑）其他社会、文化和政治因素。这对新工党的政策制定具有重要意义。特别是，它允许重新解释不平等和不利的问题，并采取新的政治措施。这些措施在空间和社会上产生不同的影响，可能会被认为对政策主体不利。本文的目的是探讨社会排斥如何成为英国福利政策的主要框架，并使用话语和内容分析来检查嵌入具体政策制定中的关键假设。因此，它指出了语言在规定相对持久和稳定的社会政治联系方面的重要性，以及它在调解国家、经济和社会之间关系的特定（政治）愿景方面的作用，这在新工党的“第三条道路”中是隐含的。
Abstract Since the election to power of New Labour in 1997, the concept of social exclusion has played a defining role in framing welfare policy. The rapid absorption of its terminology in government discourse has signalled a shift away from existing notions of inequality and disadvantage to a broader understanding of material poverty, which also includes (or instead prioritises) other social, cultural and political factors. This has important implications for New Labour policy-making. In particular, it allows for problems of inequality and disadvantage to be reinterpreted and new political measures to be introduced. Such measures produce different effects across space and society, which may be argued to disadvantage policy subjects. The aims of this paper are to explore how social exclusion has become installed as the primary framework of welfare policy in the UK and to examine the key assumptions embedded within specific policy formulations using discourse and content analysis. It thus points towards the importance of language in stipulating relatively enduring and stable sets of socio-political connections, and its role in mediating a particular (political) vision of the relationship(s) between state, economy and society as implicit in New Labour's ‘Third Way’.