The term « langue de bois » (literally « tongue of wood ») is highly polysemic in French and has no single translation in English. The term appeared in France in the 1980s as a borrowing from the Russian « yezik douba » meaning « tongue of oak », possibly via Poland at the time of the events in Gdansk and the movement started by the Solidarność trade union. How did a term used to describe the language of a totalitarian state, coined by George Orwell as « newspeak », come to be used in so many different ways? Orwell himself provides the explanation: in a celebrated article on the language of politics, he argues that subverting the truth is not an exclusive mark of totalitarian regimes. Today, we have a form of expression known as « straight ...
Set in the totalitarian society of Oceania, George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how a government can ex...
In 1975, 1/3 of the publications by French scholars were written in English. What is thé implication...
The paper deals with the reflecting, in language, of a kind of "inertia" manifested in politics, eco...
Based on its functions in totalitarian regimes, the type of language George Orwell called « newspeak...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Language and politics are two inextricable concepts for George Orwell, who, writing during and after...
Cet article prend pour objet les mots étrangers (principalement français) figurant dans un texte de ...
This paper analyses Orwell’s stance as far as the use of foreign words in English is concern...
This paper analyses Orwell’s stance as far as the use of foreign words in English is concern...
In the dystopian world that George Orwell imagines in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hegemonic ...
In the dystopian world that George Orwell imagines in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hegemonic ...
Set in the totalitarian society of Oceania, George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how a government can ex...
Set in the totalitarian society of Oceania, George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how a government can ex...
In 1975, 1/3 of the publications by French scholars were written in English. What is thé implication...
The paper deals with the reflecting, in language, of a kind of "inertia" manifested in politics, eco...
Based on its functions in totalitarian regimes, the type of language George Orwell called « newspeak...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been widely studied, but not one of his important inventions in th...
Language and politics are two inextricable concepts for George Orwell, who, writing during and after...
Cet article prend pour objet les mots étrangers (principalement français) figurant dans un texte de ...
This paper analyses Orwell’s stance as far as the use of foreign words in English is concern...
This paper analyses Orwell’s stance as far as the use of foreign words in English is concern...
In the dystopian world that George Orwell imagines in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hegemonic ...
In the dystopian world that George Orwell imagines in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hegemonic ...
Set in the totalitarian society of Oceania, George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how a government can ex...
Set in the totalitarian society of Oceania, George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how a government can ex...
In 1975, 1/3 of the publications by French scholars were written in English. What is thé implication...
The paper deals with the reflecting, in language, of a kind of "inertia" manifested in politics, eco...