What Orwell Didn't Know

Name: What Orwell Didn't Know
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ISBN: 9781586485603

ISBN-10: 1586485601

ISBN-13: 9781586485603

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andras Szanto, Orville Schell

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Manipulation. Bias. Spin. Dishonesty. Half a century after George Orwell's death and six decades after his classic essay, "Politics and the English Language"-in which he tied the corrosion of language to the corruption of politics-American public life is riddled with the symptoms of obfuscation and doublespeak Orwell so vividly diagnosed. A Big Brother-style dystopia has not come to pass, but tools are available to spinmeisters and image-makers that allow them to detach politics from reality on a daily basis.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Editor's Note



Introduction: Follies of Orthodoxy




Language and Politics


Orwell Then and Now



The Limits of Language



Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth, and Power



An Egregious Collocation of Vocables



Freedom, Liberty, and Rights: Three Cautionary Tales



Sloppiness and the English Language




Symbols and Battlegrounds


What Orwell Didn't Know About the Brain, the Mind, and Language



The New Frontier: The Instruments of Emotion



Stellar Spin



Bad Knowledge



Black and White, or Gray: A Polish Conundrum



After the Falwellians




Media and Message


Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show



Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom of Night Will Stay the Couriers from the Swift Completion of Their Appointed Rounds-but What About Big Media?



Reporters and Rhetoric



Lessons from the War Zone



Our Own Thought Police



Epilogue: What I Didn't Know: Open Society Reconsidered




Politics and the English Language



Notes


Author Biographies