Decoding the Language of Revolutions

Second Foundation studies how the use of language persists, fails, and is actually empirically propagated: both by authoritative bodies and by local subcultures, in order to structure revolutions. We see this happen inside of philosophy departments as with the example of ordinary language philosophy, with the Frankfurt School, and furthermore, with language coming from prolific, bottom-up social movements. 

We ask how such changes to language take form and are spread as bottom-up processes that can be modeled computationally. Also, what accounts for respective success or failure of adoption.