Beyond nineteen eighty-four : doublespeak in a post-Orwellian age /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	National Council of Teachers of English.
Other Authors:	Lutz, William.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [1989]
Subjects:	Orwell, George, > 1903-1950 > Knowledge > Language and languages. English language > Semantics. English language > Jargon. English language > Political aspects. Communication > Political aspects. Communication > Moral and ethical aspects.
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Table of Contents:

Notes toward a Definition of Doublespeak / William Lutz
Truisms Are True : Orwell's View of Language / Walker Gibson
Mr. Orwell, Mr. Schlesinger, and the Language / Hugh Rank
What Do We Know? / Charles Weingartner
The Dangers of Singlespeak / Edward M. White
The Fallacies of Doublespeak / Dennis Rohatyn
Doublespeak and Ethics / George R. Bramer
Post-Orwellian Refinements of Doublethink : Will the Real Big Brother Please Stand Up? / Donald Lazere
Worldthink / Richard Ohmann
'Bullets Hurt, Corpses Stink' : George Orwell and the Language of Warfare / Harry Brent
Political Language : The Art of Saying Nothing / Dan F. Hahn
Fiddle-Faddle, Flapdoodle, and Balderdash : Some Thoughts about Jargon / Frank J. D'Angelo
How to Read an Ad : Learning to Read between the Lies / D. G. Kehl
Subliminal Chainings : Metonymical Doublespeak in Advertising / Don L. F. Nilsen
Doublespeak and the Polemics of Technology / Scott Buechler
Make Money, Not Sense : Keep Academia Green / Julia Penelope
Sensationspeak in America / Roy F. Fox
The Pop Grammarians
Good Intentions, Silly Ideas, and Doublespeak / Charles Suhor.