Language, Ideology and Education

Abstract

This thesis examines the relationship between language and social reality.The position argued for is one which sees language as having a constitutive role to play in the formation and maintenance of the social world.It elaborates and develops a view expressed by Quentin Skinner, namely, that language and the social world are mutually supportive and exist in a state of dynamic interaction.Because language has this constitutive role in relation to the social world attention to the use of language is important for the language we employ will be a significant factor in determining the nature of that world.The notion of ideology is defined in a critical sense as 'malign decontestation', i. e., the

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