Reading

Language in Thought and Action, Chapter 13-15 and Orwell’s Politics and English Language

Questions

  1. What is the general thesis of Politics and English Language? How do these relate to what we have covered in the text?

  2. In Chapter 15 of LITA, Hayakawa introduces the idea of intensional orientation. How are some of Orwell’s criticisms examples of intensional orientation?

  3. How do the connotations and denotations of a word influence the way we categorize them?

  4. How are some of the verbal habits of advertisers and politicians similar? What are questions we can ask ourselves to try and understand what is being communicated?

  5. Come up with 2 additional questions relating these two texts to present to the class