Ordinary language is already purged of expressive means by society

Evidence

However, it is also the token of a false concreteness. The language which provides most of the material for the analysis is a purged language, purged not only of its “unorthodox” vocabulary, but also of the means for expressing any other contents than those furnished to the individuals by their society. The linguistic analyst finds this purged language an accomplished fact, and he takes the impoverished language as he finds it, insulating it from that which is not expressed in it although it enters the established universe of discourse as element and factor of meaning. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 651

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the attention/consumption bridge: the mutilated language is the linguistic mirror of one-dimensional consciousness restricting itself. — connects to: Language in the culture industry calculates and incites but no longer expresses. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 258; Celebrating working-class dialect is reactionary because domination has deformed the poor’s language — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 116; Everyday speech conceals society’s domination over language as hidden meaning — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 669 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Everyday speech conceals society’s domination over language as hidden meaning #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 669
• Linguistic philosophy suppresses what speech reveals about the society that speaks it #complicates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 652
• Language itself is a political battlefield when discourse is indoctrinated #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 713
• Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals #expands (0.75)
• Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts. #complicates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 662