Politics and the English language : an essay / by George Orwell ;

By:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Typophiles monograph ; 19.Publication details: Oxford : Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022.Description: 59 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781851246021
1851246029

Subject(s):

English language -- Political aspects

LOC classification:

PR6029.R8 O79p 2022

Summary: 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"

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso)	PR6029.R8 O79p 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000183629

"First published in Horizon (London)"--Verso of t.p.

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"

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