POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

PUBLISHER:    Penguin
GENRES:    Communication Studies, Political Science & Theory, Literary Essays
AUTHORS:    George Orwell
PAGES:    23 pages
LANGUAGE:    english
PHYSICAL FORM:    Book
TYPE:    Digital

'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. 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.'