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Language Log has a Mark Liberman post rapping the knuckles of Bill Moyer's website for its facile description of what George Lakoff and Rockridge are working with. As Liberman says, "It's about ideas, not words." Here's a quote from Liberman's blog post that I am hoping to get clarified by someone closer to the source.
So when Lakoff talks about how political debates are "framed", he means (I think) to talk about what frames (in the sense of conceptual structures) underlie them. But the verb to frame has an ordinary meaning "to put into words", and whoever wrote Moyers' blurb seem to have translated George's shtick about how conservatives have done a better job of "framing" their arguments into the rather different idea that "words really have the power to win not just hearts and minds, but votes"
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beau wrote
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Trackbacks and comments at Language Log are off for the post in question. Meanwhile, I found this wonderful link simple framing at Lakoff's Rockridge site. How's that for "close to the source."
beau wrote
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Mark Liberman johnny-on-the-spot and quite graciously has enabled trackback for this post. Thanks Mark!