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Doublespeak and Award
The recipients of the Doublespeak Award are usually politicians, national administration or departments.
* National Council of Teachers of English Doublespeak Award established in 1974
* Doublespeak Award
* NCTE Doublespeak Award

Doublespeak and is
Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words.
Although there is no mention of Doublespeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four, it has been argued that the term is a combination of two concepts-Doublethink and Newspeak which are original to his work.
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note in their book that Orwellian Doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called ‘ dichotomization ’; a component of media propaganda involving ‘ deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news ’.
He also mentions that the NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak and their works with regards to educating the public on doublespeak is responsible for " the rather awesome task of combating the advertisers, the politicians, and the major manipulators of public language in our society.
Doublespeak is also employed in the field of politics.
Doublespeak is often used by politicians for the advancement of their agenda.
In " Public Doublespeak: On Mistakes and Misjudgments ", Terence Moran cites the fall guy, but also specifically highlights the parallels between a transcript of both Nixon and Dean and a scene from The Maltese Falcon, specifically the one where Wilmer the gunman is sold out ; pulp fiction meets pulp politics.

Doublespeak and public
Lutz was also the former editor of the now defunct Quarterly Review of Doublespeak, which examines ways that jargon has polluted the public vocabulary with phrases, words and usages of words designed to obscure the meaning of plain English.
The National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.

Doublespeak and have
Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which " unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes ".
Doublespeak might also have some connections with contemporary theories as well.
Examples of the structural nature of the use of Doublespeak have been made by modern scholars.

Doublespeak and language
He served as editor of its second publication, Teaching about Doublespeak ( 1976 ), which carried forward the Committee's charge to inform teachers of ways of teaching students how to recognize and combat language designed to mislead and misinform.
Charles Weingartner, one of the founding members of the NCTE committee on Public Doublespeak mentioned: “ people do not know enough about the subject ( the reality ) to recognize that the language being used conceals, distorts, misleads ”.

Doublespeak and deceptive
" Under the leadership of Commissioner Kessler ," said William Lutz, chair of the NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak, " the FDA has begun seizing products with misleading labels, developing new guidelines for clarity and accuracy in food labels, and exposing false, misleading, and deceptive health claims on food labels and in food advertising.

Doublespeak and .
Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms ( e. g., " downsizing " for layoffs, " servicing the target " for bombing ), making the truth less unpleasant, without denying its nature.
William D. Lutz, serves as the third chairman of the Doublespeak Committee since 1975 to the present.
In 1989, both his own book Doublespeak and, under his editorship, the committee's third book, Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four, were published.
Bringing the charges of the two resolutions to life was accomplished by forming NCTE's Committee on Public Doublespeak, a body which has acquitted itself with notable achievements since its inception.
Hugh Rank formed the Doublespeak committee and was the first chairman of this committee.
He was also the founder of the Intensify / Downplay pattern that has been widely used to identify instances of Doublespeak being used.
Daniel Dieterich served as the second chairman of the Doublespeak committee after Hugh Rank in 1975.
Doublespeak: From " Revenue Enhancement " to " Terminal Living ": How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You.
* Booknotes interview with William Lutz on Doublespeak: The Use of Language to Deceive You, December 31, 1989.
* Lutz, William D., Doublespeak, New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1990.

Award and is
An Academy Award is an award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.
The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards.
The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.
Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.
Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.
* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
It is the only Canadian university selected for inclusion in the Education and Academia category of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award.
In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.
The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award ( MVP ) is an annual Major League Baseball ( MLB ) award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.
In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).
Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.
* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.
* The Babe Ruth Home Run Award is an annual award presented to the leading home run hitter in MLB.
Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

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