Haig Aram Bosmajian is an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award

Orwell Award

The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language , established in 1975 and given by the National Council of Teachers of English Public Language Awards Committee, recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis...

 for his book The Language of Oppression (1974). Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University

Stanford University

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. His work has explored rhetoric

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...

 and the freedom of speech

Freedom of speech

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. Bosmajian has been professor emeritus at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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, in the Speech/Communications Department, where he has taught since 1965. He is married to Hamida Bosmajian, also a published author and a professor at nearby Seattle University

Seattle University

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Haig and Hamida Bosmajian wrote the textbook, The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement (1969), which has been published as a student textbook to analyze strategies of rhetoric

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...

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Works

The following are selected works by Haig Bosmajian:

• Burning Books (March 2006, 233 pages) ISBN 0786422084.
• The Freedom Not to Speak (New York, 1999, 248p.) ISBN 0814712975.
• Metaphor and Reason in Judicial Opinions (July 1992)
• The Freedom to Publish (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1989, 230p.)
• The Freedom of Religion (First Amendment in the Classroom) (June 1987)
• Freedom to Read (April 1987)
• Censorship, Libraries, and the Law (1983)
• The Language of Oppression (1974)
• The Principles and Practice of Freedom of Speech (1971)
• Dissent, Symbolic Behavior and Rhetorical Strategies
• Readings in speech (1965)
• "The Communist Manifesto: Critical Essay"
• "Lying to the People", Western Journal of Speech Communication, Fall 1991.
• "Dehumanizing People and Euphemizing War", Christian Century, December 5, 1984.

External links

• "Dehumanizing People and Euphemizing War" (essay), Haig Bosmajian, Christian Century, December 5, 1984, p. 1147.

• "The Freedom Not to Speak - Google Books Result", Google Books, webpage: Books-Google-FNS-front.