Four diplomatic models have been elaborated, with reference to the main Western political cultures: the conservative, the liberal, the socialdemocrat/constructivist and the socialist/manichean. Then, these categories of political sociology have been applied to the four arenas of world governance: cultural (conflicts between different nations and/or civilizations), military (peace and war intera...

I present two U.S. court cases in which I participated as a linguistic anthropological "expert" to show how language ideologies of the law both influence legal outcomes and conflict with "scientific" ideas about language. One case was the murder trial of a young Mixtec-speaking Indian from Oaxaca; the other was a civil suit brought by four Hispanic women dismissed from an elder-care center for ...

Walter Block's critique of my paper fails to address the main argument. It is that Ludwig von Mises's support for laissez faire comes from a comparison of the systems recommended by the ideologies of socialism, interventionism, and liberalism. Mises compares these systems according to the criterion of their capacity to achieve the goal of satisfying material wants, which is either explicit or i...

This article contributes to developing a management and organisation studies perspective on political organising by focusing on: (a) populism; (b) the exercise of power; (c) politics. We address two questions: in what ways have English populist politicians 20th 21st centuries utilised language along with other aspects campaign build enhance their symbolic power? And: how do organisations conver...

Symbols, one of the three forms figurative language, play a crucial role in human life as they expand and deepen knowledge while igniting imagination. Given their significance, symbols find extensive employment throughout Christian Scriptures, known Bible, most widely translated book globally. This study aimed to identify various types symbols, ideologies, strategies employed translating religi...