Political English

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781913724306

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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Thomas Docherty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350101401

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Political English by Thomas Docherty Pdf

From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally degraded political culture.

Author : John P. O'Regan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317608776

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Global English and Political Economy by John P. O'Regan Pdf

In this book, John O’Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the endless accumulation of capital in a capitalist world-system. O’Regan combines Marxist perspectives of capital accumulation with world-systems analysis, international political economy, and studies of imperialism and empire to present a historical account of the ‘free riding’ of English upon the global capital networks of the capitalist world-system. Relevant disciplinary perspectives on global English are examined in this light, including superdiversity, translanguaging, translingual practice, trans-spatiality, language commodification, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca. Global English and Political Economy presents an original historical and interdisciplinary interpretation of the global ascent of English, while also raising important theoretical and practical questions for perspectives which suggest that the time of the traditional models of English is past. Providing an introduction to key theoretical perspectives in political economy, this book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in applied linguistics, World Englishes and related fields of study.

Author : J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0521574986

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The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 by J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer Pdf

A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.

Author : Michael Kenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199608614

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The Politics of English Nationhood by Michael Kenny Pdf

Provides an overview of the evidence, research, and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness and its varied political ramifications and dimensions.

Author : J. W. Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000704716

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English Political Thought by J. W. Allen Pdf

First published in 1938. A study of the political doctrines and events which led to a hardening of lines between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. "From the March of 1604, when James I met his first Parliament to the assembly of the Long Parliament in November 1640, there was going on a conflict between irreconcilable views concerning the constitution of government in England. It was concerned with what had been and with what was and, necessarily, with what should be." By 1640 the question soon would be "how stable government could ever again be established . . . But the confusion, if it produced little else of value, produced a ferment of thought." And this ferment has had an incalculable effect on the centuries which have followed. Among the many topics discussed, on the basis of firm knowledge and with reasonableness, are the King and the nature of his claim, the parliamentary opposition and its conceptions and the possibility of compromise, the approach to Toleration, Puritanism and the Laudian Church, and the final collapse of government.

Author : Thomas Docherty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350101418

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Political English by Thomas Docherty Pdf

From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally degraded political culture.

Author : Andrea Ruddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107652507

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English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century by Andrea Ruddick Pdf

This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England's domains, a sense of English identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of a significant section of political society. Using previously neglected official records as well as familiar literary sources, the book reassesses the role of the English language in fourteenth-century national sentiment and questions the traditional reliance on the English vernacular as an index of national feeling. Positioning national identity as central to our understanding of late medieval society, culture, religion and politics, the book represents a significant contribution not only to the political history of late medieval England, but also to the growing debate on the nature and origins of states, nations and nationalism in Europe.

Author : Thomas Docherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : 1350101427

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Political English by Thomas Docherty Pdf

"From post-truth politics to 'no-platforming' on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally degraded political culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Capital
ISBN : NYPL:33433009007745

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The Postulates of English Political Economy by Walter Bagehot Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141913261

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The Politics by Aristotle Pdf

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.

Author : Conal Condren
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781580465823

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Political Vocabularies by Conal Condren Pdf

Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages.

Author : Catherine Marshall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030625399

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Political Deference in a Democratic Age by Catherine Marshall Pdf

This book explores the concept of deference as used by historians and political scientists. Often confused and judged to be outdated, it shows how deference remains central to understanding British politics to the present day. This study aims to make sense of how political deference has functioned in different periods and how it has played a crucial role in legitimising British politics. It shows how deference sustained what are essentially English institutions, those which dominated the Union well into the second half of the twentieth century until the post-1997 constitutional transformations under New Labour. While many dismiss political and institutional deference as having died out, this book argues that a number of recent political decisions – including the vote in favour of Brexit in June 2016 – are the result of a deferential way of thinking that has persisted through the democratic changes of the twentieth century. Combining close readings of theoretical texts with analyses of specific legal changes and historical events, the book charts the development of deference from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Rather than offering a comprehensive history of deference, it picks out key moments that show the changing nature of deference, both as a concept and as a political force.

Author : Michael Mendle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521521319

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Henry Parker and the English Civil War by Michael Mendle Pdf

Professor Mendle situates each of Parker's significant tracts in its polemical, intellectual, and political context.

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890249

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The English Police by Clive Emsley Pdf

A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses all the major issues of debate; he explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. In the final section, he looks at the changing experience of police life. Established as a standard introduction to the subject on its first appearance, the Second Edition has been substantially revised and is now published under the Longman imprint for the first time.