Truth and the Crisis in Language

Lesson 8: Truth and the Crisis in Language (Part 2)

Lesson 8: Truth and the Crisis in Language (Part 2)

In the last lesson, I suggested the crisis in language that has led to our present inability to separate what is true and false in public conversation might have first been observed in Orwell’s political newspeak and Ellul’s technological commonplaces. I think the crisis deepened with what Uwe Poerksen (1995) labeled “plastic words.” These are […]

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Lesson 7: Truth and the Crisis in Language (Part 1)

Lesson 7: Truth and the Crisis in Language (Part 1)

Because we are confronted every blasted day with a new manipulation of truth, it might help to trace the development that has led to this perilous situation. Many believe it was first brought to our attention by George Orwell who introduced “newspeak” in his novel 1984 (1949). This is a fictional language created by the […]

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