ideologeme

plural ideologemes

1. human sciencesA fundamental unit of ideology.

   It is not sufficient, however, only to identify ideologemes as a special category of language units. We must also analyze and systematize relationships between ideologemes in order to discover a model that gives rise to varied ideological uses of language.

   1995, Mikhail Epstein, After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture

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   So we will show in what follows that Frye's entire discussion of romance turns on a presupposition—the ethical axis of good and evil—which needs to be historically problematized in its turn, and which will prove to be an ideologeme that articulates a social and historical contradiction.

   1981, Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act