Exploring LanguageGary Goshgarian "Exploring Language, 8th Edition, collects 84 selections in nine chapters to focus on some provocative aspects of American culture as they are revealed by language. Among the timely topics: the media and bias, computers and writing, black English, gender differences, "warspeak," advertising (as manipulation or art?), political double talk, and bilingualism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... George Orwell How to Detect Propaganda 186 Institute for Propaganda Analysis When Words Go to War 235 Bella English Politics and the English Language 194 George Orwell When Words Go to War 235 Bella English Eleven Ways of Looking at the ...
... George Orwell How to Detect Propaganda 186 Institute for Propaganda Analysis When Words Go to War 235 Bella English Politics and the English Language 194 George Orwell When Words Go to War 235 Bella English Eleven Ways of Looking at the ...
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... George Orwell writes that the "great enemy of clear language is insincerity." To fill the gap "between one's real and one's declared aims," he explains, one simply resorts to inflated language to give importance to the insignificant. Of ...
... George Orwell writes that the "great enemy of clear language is insincerity." To fill the gap "between one's real and one's declared aims," he explains, one simply resorts to inflated language to give importance to the insignificant. Of ...
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... George Orwell George Orwell was a novelist, an essayist, and one of the most important social critics of the century. In 1945, he wrote a brilliant political satire, Animal Farm; and in 1949, his famous nightmare vision of a ...
... George Orwell George Orwell was a novelist, an essayist, and one of the most important social critics of the century. In 1945, he wrote a brilliant political satire, Animal Farm; and in 1949, his famous nightmare vision of a ...
Contents
LANGUAGE BASICS AND BEGINNINGS | 2 |
A Brief History of English | 19 |
Homemade Education | 35 |
Copyright | |
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