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ideologeme

ideologeme noun: a fundamental unit of ideology.

Noun

ideologeme (plural ideologemes)

  1. A fundamental unit of ideology.
    • So we will show in what follows that Frye's entire discussion of romance turns on a presupposition—the ethical axis of good and evil—which needs to be historically problematized in its turn, and which will prove to be an ideologeme that articulates a social and historical contradiction.1981, Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
    • It is not sufficient, however, only to identify ideologemes as a special category of language units. We must also analyze and systematize relationships between ideologemes in order to discover a model that gives rise to varied ideological uses of language.1995, Mikhail Epstein, After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture

Forms of ideologeme

pluralideologemes

Origin of ideologeme

From ideology + -eme.

Questions about ideologeme

What does ideologeme mean?
Ideologeme means a fundamental unit of ideology.
What part of speech is ideologeme?
Ideologeme is a noun.
What is the plural of ideologeme?
The plural of ideologeme is ideologemes.

Words near ideologeme in the dictionary

  1. ideolatries
  2. ideolatry
  3. ideolect
  4. ideolectic
  5. ideolog
  6. ideologeme
  7. ideologemes
  8. ideologemic
  9. ideologic
  10. ideological
  11. ideologically

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