Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglistisches Institut), course: Socio-Cultural Perspectives and the Study of Language Use (Applied Linguistics), language: English, abstract: Every piece of written or oral statement conveys some sort of ideology, whether it expressesits idea(s) bluntly or as is to be expected from, say, a high-quality read by employingeffective literary devices that are designed to convince its readership. A slovenly written bookor text, on the other hand, can even carry ideological messages unknowingly and thereby loseall its credibility and in some cases even expose itself to ridicule. A thoughtless statement,remark or non-verbal expression (gestures / facial expressions) can challenge other people tointervene and, depending on the rhetorics of the speaker, debunk the utterance or the kind ofexpression / behaviour of the former. [...]