Politics and the English Language

Orwell, George, Taylor, D.J.
Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language

Orwell, George, Taylor, D.J.

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George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it, he argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows.

First published in Horizon in 1946, Orwell's essay was soon recognised as an important text, circulated by newspaper editors to their journalists and reprinted in magazines and anthologies of contemporary writing. It continues to be relevant to our own age.

'To read a speech by a contemporary politician, an article in a broadsheet newspaper or a communication from a government department is to be plunged straightaway into a landscape where the euphemisms, wool-pulling and downright duplicity that Orwell complained about back in 1946 are all going strong.' - D.J. Taylor

Author:   Orwell, George, Taylor, D.J.
Publisher:   Bodleian Library
ISBN:  

9781851246021


Pages:   64
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Bind Format:   Hardback
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George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it, he argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows.

First published in Horizon in 1946, Orwell's essay was soon recognised as an important text, circulated by newspaper editors to their journalists and reprinted in magazines and anthologies of contemporary writing. It continues to be relevant to our own age.

'To read a speech by a contemporary politician, an article in a broadsheet newspaper or a communication from a government department is to be plunged straightaway into a landscape where the euphemisms, wool-pulling and downright duplicity that Orwell complained about back in 1946 are all going strong.' - D.J. Taylor

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Author:   Orwell, George, Taylor, D.J.
Publisher:   Bodleian Library
ISBN:  

9781851246021


Pages:   64
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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