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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Orwellian Doublespeak ( 1984)
A concept created by George Orwell , can be seen to be analogous to Doublethink and Newspeak .
Using doublethink , a person can hold 2 opposing ideas and fully believing in both the ideas . Newspeak is then the offical language used to express the ideas in doublethink. Doublespeak , therefore , can be described as evasive , ambigous language intended to deceive or confuse . It possesses the following specific attributes
Some examples of doublespeak
Using doublethink , a person can hold 2 opposing ideas and fully believing in both the ideas . Newspeak is then the offical language used to express the ideas in doublethink. Doublespeak , therefore , can be described as evasive , ambigous language intended to deceive or confuse . It possesses the following specific attributes
- misleads
- distorts reality
- pretends to communicate
- makes the bad seem good
- avoids or shifts responsibility
- makes the negative appear positive
- limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought
- makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable
- creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said
Some examples of doublespeak
- senior citizen ( old)
- Constructive severence ( laid off ; fired )
- negative patient care outcome ( patient died)
- mental activity at the margin ( insanity)
- non-performing assets ( bad loans , debts )
- pre-owned car ( used car )
- Industrial action ( strike )
- enhanced interrogation ( torture)
- premptive strike ( unprovoked attack )
- person of interest ( suspects in a crime)
- take down ( kill )
- ethnic cleansing ( genocide)
- substance abuse ( drug addiction )
- curvy ( fat )
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