The Power And Ethics Of Language

#BlackLivesMatter has been topic that has been discussed for years now, however, often times it is twisted to read #AllLivesMatter, and while that may be true, it also attempts to take away from a minority groups agency and or empowerment. In the year 2016 we have seen a substantial amount of police officer shootings against African Americans. The two most recent incidents of police shootings involved Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Both of these incidents also took days after the other. Sterling was selling CD’s out side a convenience store and for that reason was executed by two police officers. This week has all together been a very frustrating and heart breaking week, and when I think about what

What is the meaning of language? How big the role of language in your life? Have you ever realize the impact of language in your life? In my opinion, language is not as simple as people seen in general. Usually the way people see language just as a tool for communicating with others. For me, behind the general usage of language, it also has a big role in our life because a language has the power to stand and show each person’s identity. Inside the Gloria Anzaldua’s essay “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” and Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” claim that language is an identity. Because they show that language which they commonly use to communicate since the day they were born, showing who are they really are. Language as identity is very arguing phrases, it can be approach from a different perspective. This thing is exactly what are both of these essays are trying to do by approaching differently and using a different tone. Their life and experience give an impact to the way they interpret that language is an identity, and it also seen in each of their essays.

While reading chapter six from Beyond Grammar Language, Power, and the Classroom, written by Mary R. Harmon and Marilyn J. Wilson, I began to realize how much we become caught up in the rules of the so-called Standard American English. It is sad because people are being judged on their dialect, which is a representation of who people are and where they are from. I have found myself correcting people that have a different dialect, or correcting people that say words that I have been told were not proper language, such as the word ain’t. Standard American English is something that is embedded in our brains at a young age and as we go through school; language is something teachers are constantly correcting children on. Reading about dialect has

Politicians are bestowed with power and respect, but with that comes how one uses those. Media is a common communication link between politicians and people, it can act as a catalyst to interpret the information delivered from politicians to people. A political party aims to sell its ideology to the public. A prime example of this was Barry O’Farrell and his wine incident, which eventually ended his career. The ABC newspaper article called the ‘NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell to resign over “massive memory fail” at ICIA, written on the 17th of April 2014, cleverly explains the details that unfolded. It’s ironic to see similar themes in Barry

The power and idea of language can be express in so many different forms like the ability to communicate with other people. But language as a farther meaning than just communicating, language as the power of understanding thoughts and the feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, in the tone nation of sounds, gesture or even symbols and the message it can send to people. With the aid of these essays “By Any Other Names” written by Santha Rama Rau, “The language of Oppression” by Bosumajian, “You are what you say” by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and “The two faces of language “by Lakoff, will explore how the idea that language can give power and also dominate.

I am studying the rally speeches for the leaders of the Labour and Liberal Democrat party’s. Nick Clegg has been the leader of the Liberal Democrat party for 5 years now and Ed Milliband has been the leader of the Labour party for 2 years. Both of these leaders have become unpopular in the public’s eyes: Nick Clegg due to him lying about the raising of tuition fees as well as the negative view from his party as they feel he has disassociated himself from the party objectives in order to conform to a conservative coalition. Ed Milliband is unpopular due to his lack of solid policy projections and no real estimates of what he would do as prime minister, he has left the nation in confusion and doubting his ability.

Abstract The article focuses on one of the most serious accusations brought against Descartes and modern philosophy, namely “the dualism of substance”. The accusers claim that the human body and soul were viewed as completely separate; consequently, their relationship as such and the united being of man become incomprehensible. As has been shown above, the idea of the separation of the soul from the body did not originate with Descartes; it was formulated much earlier, and repeated by a disciple of Descartes’, Henry Leroy, known as Regius. When Descartes became aware of

George Orwell’s popular novel 1984 takes place in Oceania, currently ruled by The Party Oceania is an example of what Orwell envisions a totalitarian government and society. Oceania, a dystopian environment created by The Party. The Party’s aim is to gain ultimate control by using multiple means of delivery of their “Newspeak” language to influence the citizens of Oceania. The Party uses the present, the past, and the media to delivery their “Newspeak” in order to manipulate their citizens into obeying their commands. By doing so The Party thus limits what their citizens can say, think and express. Language manipulation is seen in The Party’s new language “Newspeak” in which all rebellious terms are to be eliminated.There are also “Thought Crimes” in which people think rebelliously, the manipulation of the English language’s goal is to eliminate all forms of thought crimes by not having words to express their feelings. “Doublethink” is the idea to hold two contradictory ideas and to believe both, 1984’s manipulation of the English language allows this as meaning behind words can be changed,thus allowing contradiction. Newspeak, thoughtcrimes, and doublethink are the creations of The Party which have been created to limit and control the citizens of Oceania, there is much danger in this limitation as it creates a psychological state of control upon all citizens.

The main concept in chapter five are as follows: the nature of langue, appreciating the power of words, the use and abuse of language, and creating a positive communication climate. In the first section of the nature of language are verbal statements. Language has denotative and connotative meaning. In the second part of appreciating the power of words we learn that naming things or people give it an identity. Words can get people to act in a certain way. In the third unit of the use and abuse of language we discover that humor relies on a breach of beliefs. In the last segment of creating a positive communication climate we learn that when we use I-statements we are taking ownership of our thoughts and feelings.

The implementation of mitigated speech to intentionally deflate or amplify the severity of communication is an essential aspect in every culture’s communal construct. Over the last nineteen years, I have found myself transition in how I interact using mitigation not only in public, but at home as well. In forms of everyday broadcasted media and communication, everyone utilizes mitigated speech to soften the perceived punitive language.

Doublespeak is, without a doubt, one of the most severe threats to language. Slang, texting, and improper grammar are readily accused of hijacking language when these actually follow the intent of language: to communicate. Communication is defined here as “the utilization of language to exchange information”. The irony is that while slang, texting and improper grammar may not appear as “pretty” as language should be, they all serve to communicate properly. Doublespeak intentionally utilizes language to exchange deceitful information, and does so while keeping up appearances of what we normally define as “pretty” or acceptable linguistically.

1.Word meaning When engaging in rhetorical communication, word meaning needs to be considered. A simple word’s definition, such as apple, can go farther than what it is traditionally known for. An apple is known as a type of fruit, but it is also known as a type of thing. Words can be used as a symbol and can be used as metaphors.

In the bleak new world of Orwell’s 1984, English as we know it has been replaced with “Newspeak,” a language stripped of all subtlety, ambiguity, and meaning beyond that proscribed by the ruling Ingsoc (English Socialist) party. All thought has been broken into two categories: “goodthink” (the reiteration of official party principles) and “crimethink,” and the range of thought is limited to that which is permitted by Ingsoc orthodoxy. Newspeak reads as a strange perversion of English, of all recognized rational thought. It’s bizarre and terrifying, but believably possible – as history has shown it to be. Authoritarian societies have used similar techniques for “linguistic engineering” (qtd. Sellner), many of which were laid out in Orwell’s blueprint for Newspeak. Language policy in totalitarian regimes works in conjunction with the destruction of free speech and press to attempt to control thought. Elements found in most linguistic engineering programs include extensive use of slogans, keywords, and quotations, creation of new political vocabulary, an emphasis on linguistic simplicity, vocabulary stressing communality of the group and the dehumanization of the ‘other,’ and the destruction of minority languages. Once these regimes fall, societies struggle to rebuild free thought into their language. Language control and the inherent politics of speech and words is a fascinating case study into the relationship between

Language is the inevitable medium that people use as a means of communication. However, how that person uses the language that they have varies from person to person. Some view language as a persuasive political instrument and others view it as a means of expression and empowerment. In the essay “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” by James Baldwin, he was able to illustrate the history of the discrimination of language and how black English is not accepted as its own language. Baldwin also shows that due to the lack of acknowledgement of black English, it lacks the power it needs to empower the people who speak it. In the essay “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell, he was able to break down language and explain how language shapes reality. Orwell expresses that he is not considering the literary use of language, but language is an instrument of expression and the promotion of cognitive deliberation and persuasion. Furthermore, both these authors agree that language is a political instrument, however, Baldwin uses this instrument to unite people and Orwell uses the instrument to persuade people.

This essay analyses the role of the language in colonized land by English empire. More in specific, how the colonial and post-colonial poems dealing with this powerful tool which is ‘language’. I will take in consideration Derek Wolcott. Drawing thought two of his poems, I am going to point out the way he uses ‘language’,