How to strengthen the voice of civil society with the strategic use of language: Linguistic distinction as a discursive strategy in a crisis

Abstract: Civil society movements, such as Occupy, often fail to speak in a coherent voice and create majorities in the public sphere, even though crises provide fertile conditions for establishing alternative views. To ensure that their perspectives are heard, civil society actors must fifind a common counter-language that represents the essence of their perspectives. They also need to translate those words into languages that will reach citizens beyond the English-speaking community Tags: Academic