Orwellian Doublespeak: Dialogicality and the English Language

Review of George Orwell's famous essay (1946) Politics and the English Language

Thomas Beavitt Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-2167

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2021.5.4.158

Author Biography

Thomas Beavitt, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Thomas Beavitt is a Researcher at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics and Scientific Communication, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are structured by his professional work as a scientific editor and translator, as well as by the Global Village Bard intercultural collaboration programme he founded in 2003.

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Published

2021-12-30

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Beavitt, T. (2021). Orwellian Doublespeak: Dialogicality and the English Language. Changing Societies & Personalities, 5(4), 690–694. doi:10.15826/csp.2021.5.4.158

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Vol. 5, No. 4 (2021)

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