Our conversation ranged from the Panhandle to the Canada Line, while our horses were jogging south. 05:41 — “Duplicity is a matter of intention. You can identify duplicity by looking at who says what to whom, under what conditions and circumstances, with what intention and with what result. Terrence P. Moran of the U.S. National Council of Teachers of English compared the use of duplicity in the mass media to a series of laboratory experiments on rats. In the experiment, a sample of rats was first deprived of food before one group was fed sugar and water and the other group was given a solution of saccharin. Both groups showed behavior suggesting that their hunger was satisfied, but the rats in the second group (fed with saccharin solution) died of malnutrition. Moran compares Doublespeak`s effects on the social masses with the second group of rats, on which an illusory effect was created. He also points out the structural nature of duplicity, noting that the mass media and other social institutions take an active and top-down approach to managing the opinions of society as a whole:[11] However, if you start using a euphemism because you want to avoid harsh reality, then you are involved in duplicity. For example, the State Department coined the duplicity euphemistic term “unlawful arbitrary detention” or “unlawful arbitrary deprivation of life,” Lutz says. I hope it`s not too close, but we talk about the similarity in the episode. The term “duplicity” comes from George Orwell`s book “Nineteen Eighty-Four”.
Although the term is not used in the book,[4] it is a close relative of two of the book`s central concepts, “double thinking” and “new language.” Another variant, “Doubletalk,” which also refers to intentionally ambiguous language, existed at the time Orwell wrote his book, but the use of “Doublespeak” as well as “Doubletalk” in the sense of emphasizing ambiguity clearly dates back to the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four. [5] [6] Parallels have also been drawn between duplicity and Orwell`s classic essay Politics and the English Language, which deals with the distortion of language for political purposes. [7] He notes that political language serves to distort and obscure reality. Orwell`s description of political discourse is very similar to the contemporary definition of duplicity:[8] If your car is stolen, it is legally an involuntary transformation of your property. Advertisers can use Doublespeak to disguise their business intent from users as users` defenses against advertising solidify. [18] Some attempt to counter this technique with a number of systems that offer different views and information to highlight the manipulative and dishonest methods used by advertisers. [19] “This essentially means that the government has been busy killing its own citizens without trial or other legal subtleties, so [this is an example where] euphemism turns into duplicity.” I listened to his testimony before Congress, which was so impressed by his use of economic jargon, duplicity, gibberish, and it all sounded so impressive, didn`t it? But that didn`t mean anything anyone could understand,” says Lutz. Certainly, all this graphic talk about gastrointestinal disorders makes you uncomfortable. In a democracy, we decide which policies and candidates we support by listening to public discourse. When the discussion is conducted in duplicity, organizations deliberately mislead people so that they don`t really know what`s going on, and we make decisions of social importance on the wrong footing. Which celebrity started talking about his eating disorder? 29:27 — With respect to the use of corporate websites for financial disclosures of listed companies [PDF], Mr. Lutz reminds us that websites do not exist alone.
There are still all kinds of regulatory and legal documents that have been submitted to government agencies and are not available on most corporate websites. And all these revelations must coincide. 20:22 — William discusses the conflict inherent in corporate social media policies. From a legal point of view, it represents a very conservative point of view in the face of the prospect of legal prejudice. Hugh Rank helped found the Doublespeak Committee in 1971 and was its first chairman. Under his leadership, the committee produced a book entitled Language and Public Policy (1974), with the aim of educating readers about the extent of duplicity used to intentionally deceive and deceive the public. He highlighted the deliberate abuse of language by the public and provided strategies to combat duplicity by focusing on educating people in the English language to help them recognize when duplicity comes into play. He was also the founder of the intensification/minimization model, which was commonly used to identify cases of duplicity.
[13] The writer Edward S. Herman cited what he saw as examples of duplicity and double thinking in modern society. [9] Herman, in his book Beyond Hypocrisy, describes the main characteristics of duplicity: we would return the product for reimbursement and should do the same when we hear duplicity by ceasing to be passive consumers of language and requiring those who use duplicity to reformulate. 02:47 – After a career focused on the use of duplicity – a term coined by George Orwell in his 1984 book, first published in 1949 – Lutz says this practice is on the rise for the same reason Orwell predicted in his book, namely, “You can get away with a lot in language.” .