Political vocabularies : word change and the nature of politics Part one: Prolegomena. 1. The scope of the political 2. Systems of words 3. The idea of a conceptual model Part two: Intrinsic change. 4. Extension and salience 5. Neologism 6. Euphemism: symptom and taboo 7. Euphemism: accusation and redescription Part three: Extrinsic change. 8. Loanwords and translation 9. Metaphorical incursion and migration 10. Metaphorical imposition and entanglement Conal Condrens fifth and final volume in a decades long examination of political language Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics is a study of the mechanisms of change in political vocabularies over time. Though the main focus of the study is on English political vocabulary Condren also compares political terms in other languages such as French German Latin Greek Italian and Japanese and discusses how some of these terms are imported into English. Considering concrete examples of extension and intension of meaning neologism euphemism translation loan words and metaphor as used in political discourse Condren constructs a theoretical model of the political that describes what precisely goes on when political words are used or when words are used politically. Thus Condrens analysis in this study is not merely linguistic but it bears on perennial questions about the nature of politics. The book will thus appeal not only to linguists and political scientists but to a broad readership of those interested in history politics and philosophy