Death sentences : how clichés, weasel words, and management-speak are strangling public language / Don Watson
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- 4354153
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- Author:
- Watson, Don, 1949-
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- New York : Gotham Books, 2005
- xxxii, 173 p. ; 22 cm.
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- 9781592401406
- 1592401406
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"Today's corporations, news media, education departments - and, perhaps most dangerously, politicians - speak to us and each other in cliched, impenetrable, lifeless babble. Toni Morrison has called it the "disabled and disabling" language of the powerful, "evacuated language," and "dead language." Orwell called it "anesthetic" language. In Death Sentences, Don Watson takes up the fight against it: the pestilence of bullet points, the dearth of verbs, the buzzwords, the weasel words and cant, the Newspeak of a kind Orwell could not have imagined."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Ch. 1. The dark and impenetrable thicket
- Ch. 2. Core commitments going forward
- Ch. 3. The post-truth environment.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173)
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