Manipulation of Language and Communication in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell‚ like many literary scholars‚ is greatly interested in the power of language when used as an instrument for manipulation of thought and establishing political domination. He believes that totalitarianism and the corruption of language are connected‚ and focuses on this idea in a number of his works‚ in the hopes of bringing public awareness to the government and media’s abuse of language to reshape truth
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false beliefs. Jean McGuire’s selling techniques did not include withholding information instead she gave false information to the prospective buyer. Maybe buyers need a little push to entice and increase their motivation‚ but the use of psychological manipulation is incorrect. Most people want what that can not have or want something that is no longer available and this technique
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Opening Thoughts. Manipulation. The Webster dictionary says “to control or play upon by artful‚ unfair‚ or insidious means especially to one ’s own advantage” (Merriam-Webster) So what does this mean in the context of communication. It would appear that to manipulate someone is sinister in nature. That it is something bad or evil we do to other people for our own gain. But is it? Throughout this paper I hope to disprove this fact that manipulation is only used for malicious intent. Or maybe I’ll
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photo manipulation was a 1982 National Geographic cover in which editors photographically moved two Egyptian pyramids closer together so that they would fit on a vertical cover. This case triggered a debate about the appropriateness of photo manipulation in journalism;[citation needed] the argument against editing was that the magazine depicted something that did not exist‚ and presented it as fact. There were several cases since the National Geographic case of questionable photo manipulation‚ including
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Ideological Manipulation in Translation in a Chinese Context: Su Manshu ’s Translation of Les Misérables by Li Li | | | | | | | | |1. Introduction:
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In the novel 1984‚ written by George Orwell in 1949‚ the reader explores the dystopian state of Oceania through the eyes of Winston Smith. Smith is an Outer Party member and is thus part of the bureaucracy that controls every aspect of life in his country‚ Oceania. The Party monitors every citizen of Oceania to ensure its power remains absolute‚ and employs psychological control to do so. The three primary aspects of this control are the utilization of fear‚ hatred‚ and propaganda. This type of control
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THE MANIPULATION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR -ieditors ALBERT D. BIDERMAN Bureau of Social Science Research‚ Inc. HERBERT ZIMMER Associate Professor of Psychology University of Georgia John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ New York · London -iiTHE MANIPULATION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR -iiiCopyright © 1961 by John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. All rights reserved. This book or any part thereof must not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher‚ except for any purpose of the United States Government. Library
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Manipulation and society To understand and analyse manipulative discourse‚ it is crucial to first examine its social environment. We have already assumed that one of the characteristics of manipulation‚ for instance as distinct from persuasion‚ is that it involves power and domination. An analysis of this power dimension involves an account of the kind of control that some social actors or groups exercise over others (Clegg‚ 1975; Luke‚ 1989; Van Dijk‚ 1989: Wartenberg‚ 1990). We also have assumed
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At a psychological level‚ the art of manipulation primarily involves two things: concealing aggressive intentions and behaviors and knowing the psychological vulnerabilities of your opponent well enough to know what tactics are likely to be the most effective weapons against them. Psychological manipulation is most often accomplished through covert-aggression or aggression that is so carefully veiled or so subtle that it’s not easily detected. Manipulators want what they want and fight hard to attain
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Björnsson’s research interests fall into moral psychology and moral responsibility. He works on the unification and accounts of moral correctness as well as the psychological effectiveness of manipulation and how the ignorance of others can justify the rightness of possible evil. There are many attributes that conceal the faithfulness of why manipulation is necessary to survive and why it is despicably wicked. The guiding inspiration has been to start with an empirically adequate account of why attributions
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