Doublespeak In T. Lutz's The World Of Double Speak

George Orwell uses pathos in Politics and the English Language. He does this to evoke emotion from the reader. The author’s manner of using pathos is well done. Throughout his paper, the author uses pathos in examples and specific wording. Throughout the paper’s entirety, the paper elicits feelings of inferiority and stupidity. Whether the author intended this or not is unclear. Yet, it is clear that the manner in which the author speaks uses pathos a lot.

One of the most crucial reasons people in positions of power use doublespeak is to twist the truth or reality of a negative situation to their audience. William J. Kopple, professor and department cochairman of English at Calvin College, is author of the paper “Still Vigilant about Doublespeak?” featured in the Language Arts Journal

Lutz begins the persuasive essay with a sarcastic tone. He distinguishes the use of doublespeak with quotation marks. He starts off each sentence without the use of doublespeak and ends with how doublespeak perceives the situation to be rather than the reality. Lutz states, “The Reagan Administration didn’t propose any new taxes, just “revenue enhancement” through new “user’s fees.” (Lutz line 1-3) He shows how “taxes” was changed to something different in order to mislead the public. William Lutz provided various examples to show that doublespeak can sugarcoat different situations. He then goes on to supply a definition of doublespeak through diction. William Lutz continues to classify doublespeak as a “language” and explains how it is used to mislead others. He states, “Doublespeak is language that avoids or shifts responsibility, language that is at variance with its real or purported meaning.” (Lutz line10-11) This shows that it is at a whole other level that has to be deciphered to be able to understand and also suggests that can be difficult to capture. Lutz also uses repetition to give the definition. He states, “It is the incongruity between the word and referent, between seem and be, between the essential function of language…” (Lutz line 15-16) This emphasizes the length of the effect doublespeak can have. Lutz begins to structure his essay into subsections to further explain doublespeak. The first subsection focuses on “How to Spot Doublespeak.” He

George Orwell’s essay, Politics and the English Language, first published in 1946, talks about some “bad habits”, which have driven the English language in the wrong direction, that is, away from communicating ideas. In his essay he quotes five passages, each from a different author, which embody the faults he is talking about. He lists dying metaphors, operators, pretentious diction, and meaningless words as things to look out for in your own writing and the writing of others (593-595). He talks about political uses of the English language. Our language has become ugly and the ugliness impedes upon communication. Ugly uses of language have been reinforced and passed down in the population “even among people who should and do know

“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” (Samuel Butler 1675) It’s common sense and hard wired into the minds of all humans and animals, that if your safety is questioned then your minds will make you do anything to return to whatever makes you feel peace. Playing on common fears of people, will strengthen power and will erase any inquiring into their policies (commandments). Orwell not only wanted to show fear in a fictional sense, but in the non-fictional sense as well. Orwell produced this by the characterisation of the pigs, with the progression of pig to man and this general stigma of pigs being used to describe man; this is largely evident at the end of the novel, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig,

“Doublespeak” can be seen frequently in the world of 1984. The party’s big slogan “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” (George Orwell, 4) is an good example. The idea of the slogan is to convince the citizens that what they want, is what they already have. Only war can make peace and harmony, so peace is no longer peace, it becomes war; anyone who is slaved and wants freedom, he already has freedom; you can only strengthen yourself by not knowing things and being ignorant. The slogan changes truth and make the citizens believe that anything they want other than what their government wants can only make them unhappy, therefore, no one will consider rebellion because they believe the Party’s way of governing is the best and only way. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (George Orwell, 3) is

In "Shooting an Elephant", Orwell succumb to the expectation of the public which is to shoot the elephant dead even though it is against what he believes in.

“Newspeak” is enforced to eliminate words and replace emotion, words like “excellent” are replaced with “plusgood” or “plusplusgood”. They are controlled to speak the way the party wants them to.

Orwell uses Winston Smith, our main character, to exemplify the message he repeatedly tries to get across. Winston is a middle-aged man who is alone, or so it seems. It quickly becomes clear through his awkward behavior that he is constantly being

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, civilians are forced to accept two ideas or facts at the same time which is called “Doublethink” in 1984. The concept of doublethink and doublespeak are similar; both are used commonly by politicians to take control of society. In my opinion, doublespeak is dangerous because by hiding some facts we will misunderstand

The essay “Life under the Chief Doublespeak officer” by William Lutz talks about the way language deliberately obsures and diguises used to distort meaning. The author suggests in a argument that people amongst us in everyday life /uses this technique to creatviley manipulate whatever it’s original meaning is. After whatever is being translated to whomever by then its is undesirable to be communicated through plain language. He gives examples of firing employees as referring to just downsizing them and sacking off, which is a substitute that portrays the simple fact on one being fired in a gentle manner. Luts later concludes that the corporate sector, just like politicians, employs doublespeak to communicate problems and issues that has negative

The essay I decided to do a journal entry was “Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer”. The purpose of this essay was to show how corporations use language to distract from the real effect of their decisions. Major corporations use this dialect to maintain an image that they want to portray of their company. This always appears to benefit the company more than the employs, shareholders, or whoever they want to deceive. It is honestly just a way to fluff a positive outlook through a negative situation. (Lutz, n.d.) In today’s day and age this doublespeak is used more often than ever. It seems to be a more politically correct way to put negative situations to avoid scrutiny.

Orwell’s opinion of power tearing people to pieces is a strong remark to saying that people with power don’t know how to properly use it, or can change the minds of people. In this novel we see that the most power comes from the people in the ‘‘Party’. These people seem to abuse the power they have and seem as though the “Party” breaks down turning into three different ones. This makes a turmoil between who is right and who is wrong thus making it to where we talk about how the people begin to doublethink. When people doublethink it starts to take a toll on people’s mind making them accept every opinion even the ones that are wrong.

One of the most crucial reasons people in positions of power utilize doublespeak is to twist the reality of a negative situation to their audiences. William J. Kopple, professor and department cochairman of English at Calvin College, is author of the paper “Still Vigilant about Doublespeak?” featured in the Language Arts Journal of Michigan, in which he remarks, “It is doublespeakers’ sole

In the article, “Doubts about Doublespeak,” by William Lutz describes about doublespeak which is the language that changes the bad to good, negative to positive, and also its meaning. There are four kinds of it. The first, the words or phrases are used to trick or deceive people from somethings embarrassing or bitter situations. The second is slang words which uses in specific groups to communicate quickly, clearly and successfully, such as engineers, doctors, mechanics, and lawyers. Jargon becomes to use when they have to speak to other groups. The third is the words or special words are meaningless or nonsense. The last is the words which makes some things are uncommon, luxury, and symphonic. Overall, doublespeak is a tool to make society