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Politics and the English Language
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Within this essay, Orwell criticises the 'ugly and inaccurate' written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind'. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology.
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Brilliant essay
- By S Davis on 15-06-25
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Politics and the English Language
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 42 mins
- Release date: 20-12-21
- Language: English
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Politics and the English Language: And Other Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jackson Moss
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Biographer Michael Shelden called Orwell’s Politics and the English Language “his most important essay on style”. First published in 1946, the essay exploded the language trends of the time and served as an inflection point in the debate about communication in the 20th century. This collection of essays published 1946-48 provides a comprehensive critique of the status of politics and speech in the mid-century.
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Politics and the English Language: And Other Essays
- Narrated by: Jackson Moss
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-02-21
- Language: English
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The Rest Is Politics
- By: Goalhanger
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Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart break down current affairs in the UK and abroad. The Rest Is Politics analyses the latest international news, provides debate on global issues, and reveals secrets from Westminster, whilst bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably. With insider perspectives and expert analysis, The Rest Is Politics is the go-to podcast for anyone seeking intelligent, engaging discussions on British and global politics. The Rest Is Politics Plus: Join with a FREE TRIAL at therestispolitics.com for exclusive bonus content including Rory and Alastair’s first ever ...
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Great show
- By Mr. J. C. Sheppard on 07-10-22
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Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You
- By: Valerie Fridland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Valerie Fridland
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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In these 24 thought-provoking lectures, you'll investigate how social differences based on factors such as region, class, ethnicity, occupation, gender, and age are inseparable from language differences. Further, you'll explore how these linguistic differences arise, and how they both reflect and generate our social systems.
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Narration far too fast
- By lorraine on 11-05-15
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Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You
- Narrated by: Valerie Fridland
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 12-12-14
- Language: English
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Language A to Z
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Linguistics, the study of language, has a reputation for being complex and inaccessible. But here's a secret: There's a lot that's quirky and intriguing about how human language works-and much of it is downright fun to learn about. But with so many potential avenues of exploration, it can often seem daunting to try to understand it. Where does one even start?
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Hugely entertaining albeit a little shallow
- By Kira Adams on 10-01-19
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Language A to Z
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-11-13
- Language: English
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Politics for Dummies
- By: Radio One - HT Smartcast
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Why do we, the young Indians, need to understand politics? Because we are the future of our country and we need to represent it in a manner that is well-informed, sensitive and intelligent. Also because, understanding how events around the world affect our country from a historical, economical and political standpoint, is a lot of fun! Don't agree? Tune into Politics for Dummies with RJ Aniket from Radio One and Ambassador KP Fabian, an Indian Diplomat, who served in the IFS from the crucial years of '64 till '00. In this podcast Aniket, our obvious student asks all those questions we would ...
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The Language of Climate Politics
- Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
- By: Genevieve Guenther
- Narrated by: Genevieve Guenther
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In an illuminating analysis, Dr. Genevieve Guenther shows that the climate debate is not, in fact, neatly polarized, with Republicans obstructing climate action and Democrats advancing climate solutions. Partisans on the right and the left often repeat the same fossil-fuel talking points, and this repetition produces a centrist consensus upholding the status quo, even as global heating accelerates. Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics Dr. Guenther shows how this consensus is established.
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Essential advice
- By Mr A T THIERRY on 12-07-24
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The Language of Climate Politics
- Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
- Narrated by: Genevieve Guenther
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-07-24
- Language: English
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By Definition
- The Surprising History of the English Dictionary
- By: Peter Sokolowski
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A veteran Merriam-Webster editor celebrates the world’s biggest language through the dictionary In this engaging narrative lexicographer Peter Sokolowski uncovers the history of our language in the dictionary definitions written from Shakespeare’s time to ours. English is always changing...
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By Definition
- The Surprising History of the English Dictionary
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-02-27
- Language: English
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- By: Christopher R. Fee
- Narrated by: Christopher R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. Now, this series invites you to explore your heritage from an unconventional angle: through the origin and development of the English language. Leading your expedition is Christopher R. Fee, an award-winning professor and medievalist whose expertise spans Old English, Old Norse, and historical linguistics. With flair and gusto, he draws from this well of knowledge to help you trace the evolution of English across a fascinating range of cultures.
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Missed opportunity, waffling and stuttering
- By T. Hawes on 17-08-19
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Christopher R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 24-04-19
- Language: English
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Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You Were Wrong
- By: Kathleen Hall Jamieson
- Narrated by: Kathleen Hall Jamieson
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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From a media expert and network commentator, an engaging guide through the welter of misinformation-generated by politicians and the media alike-that surrounds political campaigns Here, at last, is the book for anyone who ever wondered how the media extravaganzas we call political campaigns...
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Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You Were Wrong
- Narrated by: Kathleen Hall Jamieson
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-10-00
- Language: English
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The Language of Things
- By: Deyan Sudjic
- Narrated by: Dan Morgan
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationships with them, how they shape our lives and why we desire them. Design is everywhere. It seduces, pleases and inspires us. It makes us part with our money. It defines who we think we are. An iPhone, an anglepoise lamp, a Picasso, a banknote, an Armani suit, a William Morris textile, a Lucky Strike packet, a spacecraft - every object tells a story.
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One of my top 5!
- By Frederick on 12-03-17
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The Language of Things
- Narrated by: Dan Morgan
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-05-15
- Language: English
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The Future of Language
- How Technology, Politics and Utopianism Are Transforming the Way We Communicate
- By: Dr Philip Seargeant
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Future of Language distinguishes myth from reality and superstition from scientifically based prediction as it plots out the importance of language and raises questions about its future. From the rise of artificial intelligence and speaking robots, to brain implants and computer-facilitated telepathy, language and communications expert Philip Seargeant surveys the development of new digital ‘languages’ and investigates how conventions of spoken and written language are being modified by new trends in communication.
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The Future of Language
- How Technology, Politics and Utopianism Are Transforming the Way We Communicate
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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All effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's 3 basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric. In Poetics, Aristotle draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. This collection also includes Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic.
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-10-99
- Language: English
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The Three Languages of Politics
- Talking Across the Political Divides
- By: Arnold Kling
- Narrated by: Joshua Nicholson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Three Languages of Politics is a profoundly illuminating exploration of communication in America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians are like tribes speaking different languages. This is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to lowering the barriers coarsening our politics. This is not a book about one ideology over another. Instead, it is a book about how we communicate issues and ideologies and how language intended to persuade instead divides.
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The Three Languages of Politics
- Talking Across the Political Divides
- Narrated by: Joshua Nicholson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-07-19
- Language: English
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Adaptation)
- Oxford Bookworms Library
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Jennifer Bassett - adaptation
- Narrated by: Charles Collingwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Adaptation)
- Oxford Bookworms Library
- Narrated by: Charles Collingwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 22-12-10
- Language: English
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English Language: Free Yourself Through Criticism
- How We Should Read Without Activist Scholarship, as There Is More to Life Than Race, Gender, and Identity
- By: Deborah Cox-Walker
- Narrated by: Helen Bowden
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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"Anything can be literature, and anything which is regarded as unalterably and unquestionably literature - Shakespeare, for example - can cease to be literature". These are the words of Terry Eagleton, the working-class Irish Marxist critic of English literature who believes that all literary theory is political. Not only is his observation quite banal, but it does not qualify as literary criticism. It is journalistic writing, and its validity depends merely upon our definition of literature. Perhaps his definition is so generic as to encompass any random piece of published writing.
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English Language: Free Yourself Through Criticism
- How We Should Read Without Activist Scholarship, as There Is More to Life Than Race, Gender, and Identity
- Narrated by: Helen Bowden
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 31-01-22
- Language: English
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Critical Thinking
- The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Critical Thinking Skills, Becoming Better at Problem Solving, Mastering Logical Fallacies and Avoiding Cognitive Biases
- By: Scott Lovell
- Narrated by: Timothy Burke
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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If you want to impress people with your critical-thinking skills, then check out this comprehensive audiobook with two manuscripts in one: Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies.
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Terrible narration
- By Amazon Customer on 23-05-21
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Critical Thinking
- The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Critical Thinking Skills, Becoming Better at Problem Solving, Mastering Logical Fallacies and Avoiding Cognitive Biases
- Narrated by: Timothy Burke
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-12-18
- Language: English
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Language, Learning, and Life
- Understanding the Link between Adaptation and Development
- By: Kyle Fitzgibbons
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pearl
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Surprisingly few people take any time to think about how they are learning languages. They usually just trust their teacher or friends' advice. This is inefficient at best and often liable to failure at worst. Language learning and learning in general have been over-complicated by a mass of theories, methods, and techniques. This makes life harder than it needs to be. This book attempts to cut through the noise and give a clear description of how languages are actually learned.
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Language, Learning, and Life
- Understanding the Link between Adaptation and Development
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pearl
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 27-11-13
- Language: English
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The Art of Learning a Foreign Language
- 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
- By: Benjamin Batarseh
- Narrated by: Ben Graham
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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Charlemagne is reported to have said that “to speak another language is to possess another soul”. The Art of Learning a Foreign Language consists of all the things I wish I knew at various stages of my language learning journey during the last 15 years—as a hobbyist, student, academic, and professional linguist. This book is designed to help the learner avoid many pitfalls and seize opportunities, with lessons on choosing a target language, travel, accent, immersion, technology, learning approaches, and the lifestyle habits of professional linguists.
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A brief, but great set of tips
- By A. Jackson on 13-08-22
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The Art of Learning a Foreign Language
- 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
- Narrated by: Ben Graham
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-08-22
- Language: English
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