SSA Ontology

Semantic Rewash

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Semantic Rewash

Scope note: Pattern Theft in Polished Language

Taking raw, emotional, or grassroots language from lived experience and rewording it into palatable, institutional-sounding frameworks—often to remove its power or traceability.

Concept record

Canonical URI

https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/semantic-rewash/

Status and licence

Published in SSA Ontology v0.1.0. Content licensed CC BY 4.0.

Machine-readable representation

The structured record below is also embedded in this page as JSON-LD.

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  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/semantic-rewash/",
  "name": "Semantic Rewash",
  "description": "Taking raw, emotional, or grassroots language from lived experience and rewording it into palatable, institutional-sounding frameworks—often to remove its power or traceability.",
  "termCode": "semantic-rewash",
  "inDefinedTermSet": [
    {
      "@id": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/scheme/digital-sovereignty/",
      "name": "Glossary Of Digital Sovereignty"
    }
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Sarah Ailish McLoughlin"
  },
  "url": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/semantic-rewash/",
  "sameAs": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/semantic-rewash/"
}

Provenance

This concept was extracted from the original SSA Lexicon and republished as a stable ontology resource. Original source page(s): https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/glossary-of-digital-sovereignty/

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