Orwell: politics and the English language
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/language.html
Modern European history
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture14a.html
politics of language – journalism/Bush (from uni of Berkley)
http://www.zephoria.org/lakoff/
how conservatives use language to dominate politics
lakoff’s book – don’t think of an elephant
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/19811/
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml
heidegger’s attempt to steal the language of the revolution
http://www.assumption.edu/dept/history/His130/PoliticsAndLanguage.html
whole text
http://commhum.mccneb.edu/philos/stealing2.htm
language and politics, Swahili in Tanzania
http://africana.rug.ac.be/texts/research-publications/publications_on-line/Swahili_in_Tanzania.htm
orwell’s politics and the English language in context
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
Ingenta, Journal of language and politics
The Journal of Language and Politics (JLP) represents a forum
for analysing and discussing the various dimensions in the interplay
of language and politics.
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=JLP
language of propaganda in communist china
http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/resources/working_paper/noframe_4b_polit.htm
The language of politics – Adrian Beard
Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational
Times
Geoffrey Nunberg / Hardcover / Perseus Publishing / May 2004
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No president has taken more flak over his language than George W. Bush
-- not Eisenhower, not even Harding. That's understandable enough; Bush's
malaprops can make him sound like someone who learned the language over
a bad cell-phone connection.
www.languagemonitor.com
A survey of politicians’ malapropism particularly in the run up
to the us general election. Buzzwords.
Johnson on the language of politics (Economist.com)
Applied propaganda techniques
http://www.heretical.com/miscellx/language.html
language and politics in germany
http://www.aber.ac.uk/modules/current/GEM0330.html
cartooning – the real language of politics
http://www.mcgilltribune.com/news/2004/09/28/AE/CartooningThe.Real.Language.Of.Politics-732895.shtm
http://www.indiana.edu/~deanfac/blsu104/ling/ling_e104_0003.html
Chomsky – language and politics
Pc language
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US8/PC/pc-3.html
In scientific study, the idea that language influences thought, and
therefore that the words that are used to describe people have influence
(the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) was first developed (independently of one
another) by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf. This work remains controversial,
and debate is heated. In its strong form, the hypothesis states that,
for example, sexist language promotes sexist thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
Further reading
* Language,
Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf.
by Benjamin Whorf, edited by John Carroll. MIT Press.
* Selected
Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality.
By Edward Sapir, edited by David G. Mandelbaum. University of California
Press.
* Language
Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis.
By John Lucy. Cambridge University Press.
* Rethinking
Linguistic Relativity. Edited by John Gumperz. Cambridge University
Press.
* The
Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. By Steven Pinker.
Perennial.
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Newspeak—fictional language described in Nineteen
Eighty-Four, designed to constrict thought to support the totalitarian regime
of that book.
Spin (public relations)
From Wikipedia
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In public relations, spin is a usually pejorative term
signifying a heavily biased portrayal in one's own favor of an event
or situation that is designed to bring about the most positive result
possible. While traditional public relations relies more on creative
presentation of the facts, "spin" often, though not always,
implies disingenuous, deceptive and/or highly manipulative tactics to
sway audiences away from widespread (and often commonsense) perceptions.
The techniques of spin include:
* Selective
quotation
* Selective
use of facts
* Non-denial
denial
* Phrasing
in a way that assumes unproven truths
* Euphemisms
to disguise or promote one's agenda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2118112.stm
Jo moore issued instruction to bury bad news
http://www.orwelltoday.com/
http://www.orwelltoday.com/newspeak.shtml
bbc guide to spin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/293594.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/293594.stm
The Gilligan story – the importance of language
Deconstruction, what lies behind the meaning
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/170/DC1
spin doctoring in medicine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/3195589.stm
end of spin???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3631533.stm
no 10 must end referendum spin
www.spinsanity.com
excellent American website, sorting the spin from the truth |