Politics and the English Language  -  George Orwell

KORTE INHOUD

'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately...
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2013 Uitgever: Penguin 48 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0141393068 ISBN-13: 9780141393063