Meaning of sprogbrug | Babel Free

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language use

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“En særlig raffineret form for tilbageholdelse af information er, at lovgivere i deres sprogbrug og begrebsverden postulerer, at love og bestemmelser er kønsneutrale.”

A particularly sophisticated form of withholding information is that legislators, in their language use and concept-world, postulate that laws and regulations are gender-neutral.

“2003, Lene Herholdt: Sprogbrug og sprogfunktioner i to kontekster: En undersøgelse af det danskfaglige potentiale i udeundervisningen i naturklassen pa Rødkilde Skole”

When one examines their use of language more closely, it turns out that there are very many utterances of a phatic character.

“2023 Sofi Oksanen, tr. from Finnish by Birgita Bonde Hansen: Samme flod to gange -- Putins krig mod kvinder”

I have read stacks of the documents of the Soviet security service, and what perhaps surprised me the most was their use of language: They are almost entirely written in the passive voice. Although orders, recommendations and announcements are signed by name, the text in the documents is written in the passive, erasing the personal responsibility of the signer.

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