the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not theexclusive concern of professional writers. I will come back to this presently, and Ihope that by that time the meaning of what I have said here will have becomeclearer. Meanwhile, here are five specimens of the English language ...
Politics and the English Language 电子书 读后感 评分☆☆☆ 评分☆☆☆ The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out...
内容提示: George Orwell Politics and the English Language Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language ...
saidherewillhavebecomeclearer.Meanwhile,herearefivespecimensoftheEnglish languageasitisnowhabituallywritten. Thesefivepassageshavenotbeenpickedoutbecausetheyareespeciallybad—I couldhavequotedfarworseifIhadchosen—butbecausetheyillustratevariousofthe mentalvicesfromwhichwenowsuffer.Theyarealittlebelowtheaverage,butare ...
sothatthefightagainstbadEnglishisnotfrivolousandisnottheexclusiveconcernofprofessionalwriters.Iwillcomebacktothispresently,andIhopethatbythattimethemeaningofwhatIhavesaidherewillhavebecomeclearer.Meanwhile,herearefivespecimensoftheEnglishlanguageasitisnowhabituallywritten.Thesefivepassageshavenotbeenpickedoutbecause...
PoliticsandtheEnglishLanguage 系统标签: languageenglishpolitics原版hansomarchaism 2005–2006StanfordMLAApplicationCriticalWritingPiecePage1of9PoliticsandtheEnglishLanguagebyGeorgeOrwellMostpeoplewhobotherwiththematteratallwouldadmitthattheEnglishlanguageisinabadway,butitisgenerallyassumedthatwecannotbyconsciousactiondoanythi...
Language and Politics 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 An enormous chronological collection of over fifty interviews conducted with Chomsky from 1968 to present day. Many of the pieces have never appeared in any other collection, some have never appeared in English, and more than one has been...
The introductory section of the article reflects on the key terms in the title. These include Language/the English Language, politics and multi-ethnicity. The thrust of the paper revolves on these key words, hence the need for this reflection. The role played by English in politics in...
the defense of the english language 17、implies more than this, and perhaps it is best to start by saying what it does not imply.但是这些都是细枝末节,包围英语语言所暗示的远比这些要丰富,但或许从没有暗示的地方说起才是最好的方法。to begin with it has nothing to do with archaism, with ...
View PDF View chapter About the book Description Politics and Education: Cases from eleven nations tackles the relationship between politics and education. The book presents several dimensions of the politics-education relationship, such as the use of education in achieving political agendas and the eff...