Shadow Government

[Lynne Murphy]

Why my message from  4 days ago has suddenly shown up here, I don't know!

Lynne

--On Monday, March 4, 2002 4:16 pm +0000 Lynne Murphy
<lynnem at cogs.susx.ac.uk> wrote:

> 'Shadow cabinet' is used in the UK to refer to the Tories who are in the
> complementary positions to the Labour cabinet.  Not in NODE or AHD4.  But
> you can see the current shadow cabinet at:
>
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/page/0,9067,635175,00.html
>
> This seems quite a different use of 'shadow' than in the US 'shadow
> government'.
>
> Lynne
>
>
> --On Monday, March 4, 2002 11:07 am -0500 Drew Danielson
> <andrew.danielson at CMU.EDU> wrote:
>
>> I am curious about the choice of the term 'shadow government' that has
>> used recently to refer to a skeleton US federal government hiding in
>> caves somewhere ready to pounce into action if Washington gets
>> attacked.
>>
>> Searching Google on ["shadow government" -march -2002], to eliminate any
>> recent occurences of the term with an article dateline, turns up 5,470
>> hits.  The first 20 or so of these are almost all by conspiracists and
>> are in reference to some sort of US or worldwide secret cabal that calls
>> all the shots.
>>
>> I have always associated this term with conspiracy theories, and when I
>> heard the news media talking about a 'shadow government' I thought at
>> first they had all gone crackpot till I learned what they meant by it.
>>
>> There was one page about a Mongolian Shadow Government at the Mongolian
>> Liberal Democratic Party website, www.mldp.mn/shadowgov/shad_gov.htm,
>> which seems to reinforce 'shadow government' as used in the news
>> recently.  Unfortunately this page is 'under construction' and doesn't
>> say much.
>>
>> I am wondering what are the experts' impressions of the definition of
>> this term, and its most current popular usage.
>
>
>
> Dr M Lynne Murphy
> Lecturer in Linguistics
> Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics
> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
> University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9QH
> UK
>
> phone +44-(0)1273-678844
> fax   +44-(0)1273-671320



Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

phone +44-(0)1273-678844
fax   +44-(0)1273-671320