1. The term “key word” was introduced by Williams Raymond, Key words (London, 1976, 2nd edn, 1988), there he talks of them collectively as a vocabulary which makes up the “shared body of words and meanings” that constitutes a culture. This paper will deal more with “key concept” or “Grundbegriff” which was introduced by the German historians, Otto Brunner, Conze and Koselleck in their attempt to clarify German thought in the aftermath of the Nazi era. The term “Ideograph” was introduced by the American communication scholar Michael Calvin McGee, ” The ‘ideograph’: A link between rhetoric and ideology”, Quarterly journal of speech, lxvi (1980), 1980–16. McGee was also interested in highlighting “concrete history as usages” of terms so loaded that they “hinder or perhaps make impossible pure thought”. Williams treats the term “progress” in his book and the German “Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe” treats “Fortschritt” (vol. ii). In his article McGee refers in passing to “progress” as an example of “ideographs”. More substantially in his article “‘Reconstructed, but unregenerate’: I'll take my stand's rhetorical vision of progress”, Southern communication journal, lix (1994), 1994–24, Brant Short analyses “progress” using McGee's “ideograph” concept.
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