Haig Bosmajian

Haig Aram Bosmajian (March 26, 1928 – June 17, 2014) was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award for his book The Language of Oppression (1974).^[1][2] Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University. His work has explored rhetoric and the freedom of speech.^[2] Bosmajian was professor emeritus at the University of Washington,^[3] in the Speech/Communications Department, where he taught since 1965. He was married for 57 years to Hamida Bosmajian, also a published author and a professor at nearby Seattle University.^[2][3]

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.^[4]

Works

Selected works by Haig Bosmajian include:

• Anita Whitney, Louis Brandeis, and the First Amendment^[5]
• Burning Books (March 2006, 233 pages) ISBN 0-7864-2208-4.
• The Freedom Not to Speak (New York, 1999, 248p.) ISBN 0-8147-1297-5.
• 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.