- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
- Contested Truths
Keywords in American Politics since Independence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Impressive Phrases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Knowledge of Language
Its Nature, Origin and Use
Resource Type: Book
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1993
A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
- Politics and the English Language
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1946
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
The Russell Lectures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
These lectures explore Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
- Public Speaking Phrases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Understanding Media
The Extensions of Man
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
- Words, words, words...
Diemer, Ulli
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
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