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academic book conventions, xii–xiii, 117

Adorno, Theodor, 8–9

advertising, 10, 97–98

Alternative für Deutschland (German political party), 47

anthropology, 4. See also cultural translation

aphorisms, 63–64

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 131

Arbuckle, Fatty, 17–18

Aristotle, xvii, 76

On the Art of Poetry, 79

Rhetoric, 41, 71, 76–80, 86n25, 91, 121, 130–31

Topics, 79. See also invention

Astore, William, 18

axioms, 14–16, 26, 29, 34–40, 123–26. See also theory

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 34–35

Bassnett, Susan, 12

Bhabha, Homi, 5, 42n21

bitumen oil, 73

Black Mirror (television program), 59n18, 130n2. See also solipsism

bots, 104

Bourdieu, Pierre, 10

Brecht, Bertolt, 42–44, 127

Buden, Boris, 42–43

Burden, Chris, 82

Caen (France), 118

California, 108

Canada, 28n3, 73

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 99

capitalism, 8, 49, 51

Carey, James, 97n6, 129

Chalaby, Jean, 97–98, 106

China, 50

Cicero, 79

citizenship, 42–43, 95

climate change, 72–75, 92, 121

CNN (Cable News Network), 106

Colbert Report, The (television program), 102

Comedy Central (cable network), 94, 102

communication studies, xii–xiii, 7, 11–12, 46, 129–30. See also cultural studies; theory

Craig, Robert, xii–xiii, 129

critique (as pedagogical tool), 13–16, 85, 117, 120–23, 126, 128

Cruz, Ted, 106

Culler, Jonathan, 15

cultural studies, xiii, 8, 10–12, 22, 26, 28, 45. See also communication studies

cultural translation, xii, 4–6, 21–23, 120–21

dystopian views of, 48, 69–71, 92, 116, 125–26

and ethics, 126–28

history of term, 4–5

and pedagogy, 8, 17–18, 117, 120

and tactical thinking, 71, 80, 85, 93

utopian views of, 42, 47–48, 69–71, 92, 116, 125–26. See also invention; jumping in (epistemological stance); Maitland, Sarah; misreading; parallax view; solipsism

culture industry, 8–9

cynicism, 9, 131

Daily Show, The (television program), 102

deductive reasoning, 45. See also enthymemes; inductive reasoning; syllogisms

democracy, 95, 99, 115

El Salvador, 108

“Encoding/Decoding” (essay), xiv, 10, 22, 25–27, 30–32, 116

enthymemes, 78–79. See also examples; syllogisms

epistemology, 15, 23, 59, 72, 117–22

ethics, 6, 23, 42, 46, 120, 126–27

ethos, 77–78. See also invention; rhetoric

examples: in Aristotle, 78–79. See also enthymemes; syllogisms

fake news, 10, 23, 37n15, 93–116, 127

after 2016 election, 99, 102–3, 105

and “animals” controversy, 107–14

and “enemy of the people”, 116

and “Fake News Awards”, 103

and gaslighting, 106–7

historical examples, 99–102

and television programs, 94

and social media, 104. See also Colbert Report, The (television program); Daily Show, The (television program); Twitter

Fort McMurray (Alberta), 73

Fox News, 99, 115

frames. See interpretive frames

France, 47, 118–19

Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (Austrian political party), 47

gaslighting, 60–62, 106–7

Goffman, Erving, 82, 84. See also interpretive frames

Google, 101–3

Grundrisse (book), 25, 30

Hall, Stuart, 34–36, 40, 121

and Doing Cultural Studies (book), xiii

and Representation (book), xiii. See also “Encoding/Decoding” (essay)

heretical thought, 48, 62. See also Newspeak

heroes, 18, 32–40, 51, 59

history, 57, 63, 84, 96–98, 128, 131

and doublethink in Nineteen Eighty-Four, 66–69

of fake news, 99–105

as frame, 110–14

as palimpsest, 61–62

Honduras, 108

Horkheimer, Max, 8–9

humanities, 15–16, 124, 131. See also social sciences

humour, 74, 120.

identity, 5, 42, 47, 100, 131

indexicals, 7

India, 50

inductive reasoning, 23, 45, 78, 120–21. See also deductive reasoning; examples; jumping in (epistemological stance)

internet, 56, 96, 99–100

Internet Research Agency, 100

interpretants, 32–33, 83–85

and expansion of meaning, 37n15, 38, 40, 43, 84

and frames, 84–85, 92, 110

and Nineteen Eighty-Four, 57, 59, 65. See also Peirce, Charles; semiotics

interpretive frames, 73–92, 94, 106, 109–14. See also Peirce, Charles; semiotics

interpretive horizon, 17–18, 39. See also symbolic order

invention, 27, 41, 45–46, 75–80

and Petr Pavlenskii, 85

politics of, 40–43, 124, 128

and translation, 71, 80, 91–92. See also Aristotle; rhetoric

inverted pyramid, 98

Iraq, 20

jargon, 5, 121

Jefferson, Thomas, 62, 101

jokes. See humour

Jonientz, Joel, 19–20

journalism, 84n22, 94–95, 102, 105

and fake news, 99–100, 106–8, 113–16

and objectivity, 96–99, 103

jumping in (epistemological stance), xv, 23, 117–27, 131

and hunger, 118

Kiev (Ukraine), 81, 87–88

legal system, 76, 83, 86–91, 98

logos, 77–78, 86n25. See also enthymeme; examples

London, 41, 51

Maitland, Sarah, 4n2, 6, 21n25. See also cultural translation

Marx, Karl, xv, 25, 30, 34. See also Grundrisse (book); materialism

materialism, 27, 29–34, 36, 38. See also Grundrisse (book); Marx, Karl

Matrix, The (film), 59–60

Mattelart, Armand, 129

meaning, 4–6, 20, 29–32, 34, 40, 84

contested, 4, 32, 40–45, 105, 120

evolution of, 94–95, 124

and jokes, 74–75

in Nineteen Eighty-Four, 52, 54–56, 65–66, 69

and power, 128. See also cultural translation; interpretants; polysemy; semantics; semiotics

Mercieca, Jennifer, 107

metacognition, xii

metatheory, xii, 23, 121, 125–26

method (in social sciences), 15, 131n3

Mexico, 109

Mims, Margaret, 108, 110–12

misreading, 6–7, 21–22, 49, 120. See also cultural translation; parallax view

modernity, 3, 82

Morley, David, xiv

Moscow (Russia), 80–81

Muller, Heidi, xii, 129

National Public Radio, 99

Newspeak, 47–48, 52–53

affixes in, 55

contradictions of, 62–64

and destruction of words, 54

and duckspeak, 57

and Ingsoc, 53

philosophy of, 48, 56–58, 62

vocabularies of, 53–54. See also Nineteen Eighty-Four; Orwell, George; solipsism

New York Times, 9, 74, 94, 99, 106, 109–16

n-gram, 101

Nineteen Eighty-Four (novel), 22, 47–72, 93–94, 115–16, 127

Big Brother, 49, 51, 61, 68

the Brotherhood, 50, 61, 64n21

doublethink, 49, 51–54, 63–64, 67

Eastasia (place), 50, 61

Eurasia (place), 50, 61

Inner Party, 50

interpretations of, 51–52, 71n1, 94

Julia (character), 50, 65, 67–68

Ministry of Love, 50, 64

Ministry of Peace, 50

Ministry of Plenty, 50

O’Brien (character), 50–51, 57–60, 64, 66–69, 93

Oceania (place), 49–50, 53, 58, 60–61, 64

Outer Party, 50

the Party, 49–50, 53, 57–58, 60–69, 127

proles, 50, 65, 68n22

and singing, 65–66, 68n22

Thought Police, 49, 65, 68n22

“We are the dead”, 68

and Winston Smith (character), 49–50, 54, 57–60, 64–69, 71, 93. See also Newspeak; Orwell, George; solipsism

nonverbal signs, 63–66

Nowotny, Stefan, 42–43

objectivity, 94–99

and news, 96–98, 100, 103, 105–6

and philosophy, 96, 98. See also fake news; subjectivity

Open University, xiii

Orwell, George, 22, 48–49, 51–52, 56, 62, 94, 121

Animal Farm (book), 49

“Politics and the English Language” (essay), 49, 52. See also Newspeak; Nineteen Eighty-Four

Pakistan, 50

paralipsis, 107

parallax view, 7, 17–21, 122, 125

of “Encoding/Decoding”, 26, 45

of Nineteen Eighty-Four, 48, 52

strategies for inducing, 71, 80, 94. See also misreading

pathos, 77–78

Pavlenskii, Petr, 75–76, 80, 91–92, 94, 116, 121, 128

and “actions”, 75, 80–81, 84

and art critics, 82–83

and “Freedom” (Свобода) 81, 88–91

and legal frame, 83, 87, 89–91

and political frame, 86, 88

and psychiatric frame, 83, 85

and symbolic frame, 89–91.

Peirce, Charles, 32–34, 45, 83–84, 106. See also interpretants; semiotics

performative arguments, 23, 26, 45, 121, 147

Peters, John Durham, 15, 126, 129

phenomenology, xiv n5, 96n4, 123n4

philosophy of education, xiv–xv, 129–32

philosophy of language, 32, 34, 52–53

Plato, 76, 79, 130–31

Politifact, 106

poetry, 74, 76, 79, 82, 131

polarization, 3, 7, 72, 98, 105

polysemy, 104. See also Ricoeur, Paul

positivism, 15

postcolonialism, 5. See also cultural translation

poststructuralism, 15, 123n2

power: in Nineteen Eighty-Four, 48–50, 64, 66, 70

in politics, 10, 90, 114, 128

practice. See technē

president of the United States, 23, 42, 44, 94, 102, 105

and “animals” controversy, 107–14

propaganda, 51, 61, 100, 102

Pussy Riot (band), 80, 82, 87, 121

p-values, 15

Qiu, Linda, 110

Rassemblement national (French political party), 47

rhetoric. See Aristotle; Cicero; enthymeme; ethos; examples; invention; logos; pathos

Ricoeur, Paul, 21, 39–40

Rocha, Samuel. See phenomenology

rotary press, 97

Said, Edward, 4

sanctuary cities, 108, 110

Sandler, Adam, 9

Sapir, Edward, 56–57. See also Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: strong form, 57

weak form, 63

Saussure, Ferdinand de, xi n1, 33n12

Schudson, Michael, 101, 105

Scott, A.O., 9

Scranton, Roy, 20

semantics, 21, 29

semiotics, 5, 26–40, 46, 66, 93

and “firsts”, “seconds”, and “thirds”, 83. See also interpretants; Peirce, Charles

sender-message-receiver model of communication, 22, 26–30, 32

Shannon, Claude, 28–30, 32, 121. See also sender-message-receiver model of communication

skepticism, 15, 121, 129

about climate change, 73–74, 92

about journalism, 96, 98, 101

Skywalker, Luke (fictional character), 18, 38

social media, 99, 103–4. See also Twitter

social sciences, 15–16, 121, 124, 131. See also humanities

socialism, 49, 53

solipsism, 57–62

weak form, 71–72. See also Newspeak; Nineteen Eighty-Four

Solo, Han (fictional character), 18

South America, 50

Soviet Union, 50, 81

St. Étienne (France), 118–19

St. Petersburg (Russia), 80–81, 87–88, 100

Star Wars (film franchise), 18, 20–21, 38, 127

Steiner, George, 39–40

Stephens, Bret, 114

Stewart, Jon, 102

style, 8–9

subjectivity, 33–34, 36, 38, 82, 96. See also objectivity

Swift, Jonathan, 51

syllogisms, 39, 79, 85–88, 90–91, 106, 109–11. See also enthymemes; Peirce, Charles

symbolic order, 72. See also interpretive horizon

technē, 14, 16, 124

telegraphy, 97

telephony, 26–28

television, 22, 30–34, 40, 117, 131

theory: axioms of, 14–16, 123–26

within communication studies, xii, 7, 15, 22–23, 26, 28, 117, 124–26

and pedagogy, xii–xiv, 13–14, 17

within translation studies, 26, 45–46, 120

trippiness of, 125. See also “Encoding/Decoding” (essay); humanities; jumping in (epistemological stance); metatheory; sender-message-receiver model of communication; technē

translation. See axioms

translation studies, xiii, 7–8, 11–12, 42, 53

Tuchman, Gaye, 98, 103, 106

Twitter, 100, 104, 107

UK Independence Party (British political party), 47

United States, 23, 42–43, 98, 102, 115; 2016 presidential election, 94, 102, 105

Declaration of Independence, 62

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 108–9

Veterans of Foreign Affairs, 106

Viennese Actionists, 82

Vološinov, V.N., 34

Weaver, Warren, 28–30, 32, 121. See also sender-message-receiver model of communication

Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 56–57. See also Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Writing Culture (book), 4

Yasman, Pavel, 88–92

Zelizer, Barbie, 101, 105

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