Posts Tagged ‘George Orwell’

The Decay of Political Language

Posted by Eric B. on August 27th, 2009 under Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , ,  •  No Comments

I’ve always been interested in the impact of language on society/culture. For example, do cultures with a relatively large number of violent words in their language tend to be a more violent society? (Some also argue the reverse - that society itself determines the content of the vocabulary).  I have read studies that [...]