My Revision Notes will engage students with our updated approach to consolidating course content and helping them learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective planning strategies to create a guide that students can rely on to build both knowledge and confidence.

– Helps students plan and manage their learning independently with our topic-by-topic planner
– Encourages students to practise and apply their skills and knowledge with regular ‘Now test yourself’ sections, refreshed practice questions and answer guidance online
– Supports subject-specific exam skills with a new exam skills box at the end of each chapter
– Reflects the structure and format of recent exams with refreshed exam-style questions and improved course coverage
– Includes content mapped to the specification, streamlined to give students the knowledge they need to help with the exams
– Covers content for the Political Ideas component of the AQA specification
– Helps students understand key terms with user-friendly definitions and tips throughout, plus a glossary

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A provocative case for the inherently political nature of language

In The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information. This new view of language, they argue, has dramatic consequences for free speech, democracy, and a range of other areas in which speech plays a central role.

Drawing on a wealth of disciplines, The Politics of Language argues that the function of speech―whether in dialogue, larger group interactions, or mass communication―is to attune people to something, be it a shared reality, emotion, or identity. Reconceptualizing the central ideas of pragmatics and semantics, Beaver and Stanley apply their account to a range of phenomena that defy standard frameworks in linguistics and philosophy of language―from dog whistles and covert persuasion to echo chambers and genocidal speech. The authors use their framework to show that speech is inevitably political because all communication is imbued with the resonances of particular ideologies and their normative perspectives on reality.

At a time when democracy is under attack, authoritarianism is on the rise, and diversity and equality are being demanded, The Politics of Language offers a powerful new vision of the language of politics, ideology, and protest.

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