Third, political reporting can be suasive in effect, if not in intent, and it will be useful, I think, to understand how this is so.
Nils Ringe uses the European Union to investigate how politicians’ reliance on shared foreign languages and translation services affects politics and policy-making.
Enough Said tells the story of how we got from the language of FDR and Churchill to that of Donald Trump.
The basic tenet of this book is that languages do not exist in the natural world; they are artefacts made by humans.
All-new for the '90s, Safire's Political Dictionary has been completely revised and updated. It makes American politics come alive, for not only does it succinctly define the most common and...
Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a ...
But what about the recent claims that you can write a generative grammar without transformations ? Well , first of all , one wants to know exactly what that claim means . There's a trivial sense in which that is true .
Now available with new commentary on political psychology and communication in the Trump era, Kling's book could not be any more timely, as Americans--whether as media pundits or conversing at a party--talk past one another with even ...
While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership.
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