How we collude with language to deceive ourselves

We are not merely passive recipients of top-down oppressions, but collude in effectively monitoring and disciplining ourselves and others through our (often unexamined) uses of language

Above all, language loses its privileged position and becomes, in its turn, a historical form coherent with the density of its own past.  In short, it means communication plus its context.  In general, we think we know what we mean by what we say, but have only the most fragmentary awareness of the contexts and forces under which that communication occurs.  However, these are a major part of the "meaning".