Haig Bosmajian


Haig Aram Bosmajian was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award for his book The Language of Oppression. Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University. His work has explored rhetoric and the freedom of speech. Bosmajian was professor emeritus at the University of Washington, 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.
Haig and Hamida Bosmajian wrote the textbook, The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement, which has been published as a student textbook to analyze strategies of rhetoric.

Works

Selected works by Haig Bosmajian include:Anita Whitney, Louis Brandeis, and the First AmendmentBurning Books .The Freedom Not to Speak .Metaphor and Reason in Judicial Opinions The Freedom to Publish The Freedom of Religion Freedom to Read Censorship, Libraries, and the Law The Language of Oppression The Principles and Practice of Freedom of Speech Dissent, Symbolic Behavior and Rhetorical StrategiesReadings in speech