Doublespeak

Doublespeak
Title Doublespeak PDF eBook
Author William Lutz
Publisher Ig Publishing
Pages 0
Release 2016-01-12
Genre English language
ISBN 9781632460172

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Describes the four different types of doublespeak (euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook, and inflated language).

The New Doublespeak

The New Doublespeak
Title The New Doublespeak PDF eBook
Author William Lutz
Publisher Harper Perennial
Pages 0
Release 1996
Genre Jargon (Terminology).
ISBN 9780060928391

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The author "exposes the latest doublespeak that permeates what passes for communication in our society."--Jacket.

Doublespeak Defined

Doublespeak Defined
Title Doublespeak Defined PDF eBook
Author William D. Lutz
Publisher HarperPB
Pages 192
Release 1999-07-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780062734129

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In an increasingly Orwellian world, everyone should be armed with this hilarious, slyly subversive deconstruction of the slippery locutions of spinmeisters from all walks of public life. Doublespeak guru William Lutz (Doublespeak, The New Doublespeak) is uniquely qualified to bring you this supremely funny expos‚ of the juiciest ways THEY are trying to bamboozle you! A sampling of Doublespeak Defined: Bald n./ :hair disadvantaged Men in Japan aren't bald; they're "hair disadvantaged," according to The Japan Economic Journal. Diet n./ :1.nutrional avoidance therapy 2. caloric reduction program Frozen adj./ :1 deep chilled 2. fresh 3. hard chilled 4. previously frozen The USDA considers processed chickens "fresh," not frozen, if they have been chilled to 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Chickens so processed have not been frozen but "deep chilled." Light Switch n./ :ideogram illumination intensity adjustment potentiometer Waste paper basket n./ :user-friendly, space-effective, flexible desk side sortation unit Government officials in Toronto, Canada, paid $123.80 (Canadian) each for these items.

Doublespeak

Doublespeak
Title Doublespeak PDF eBook
Author Matthew
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 337
Release 2014-04-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3838265548

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This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the end of World War II, the extreme right has made strategic use of “doublespeak,” which apes the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of these tactics means taking the extreme right’s deliberately crafted slogans, symbols, and themes seriously. These essays investigate the extreme right’s attempts at “repackaging” contemporary ultranationalism to make it more palatable to mainstream European and American tastes.

Actors in the Audience

Actors in the Audience
Title Actors in the Audience PDF eBook
Author Shadi Bartsch
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 332
Release 1994
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780674003576

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Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal all figure in Bartsch's shrewd analysis of historical and literary responses to the brute facts of empire; even the Panegyricus of Pliny the Younger now appears as a reaction against the widespread awareness of dissimulation.

Weasel Words

Weasel Words
Title Weasel Words PDF eBook
Author Paul Wasserman
Publisher Capital Books
Pages 244
Release 2006
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781933102078

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With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms used by government, businesses, and the media.

Brother Tariq

Brother Tariq
Title Brother Tariq PDF eBook
Author Caroline Fourest
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 466
Release 2010-06
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1458779165

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The name of Tariq Ramadan is well known in the West. Thanks to his urbane manner and articulate way of expressing himself - in a number of languages - this Swiss-born academic is a regular contributor to television and radio features dealing with Islam (and Islamism) and the West. In England, his reputation as a ''moderate'' has won him praise - and even an invitation from the Prime Minister to serve on the government's task force on preventing extremism. Meanwhile, as the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ramadan enjoys a certain status in Islamic circles - a kind of ambassador for his grandfather's brand of political Islam. So who is the real Tariq Ramadan and what does he stand for? In this incisive and insightful study of the man, well-known French writer and journalist Caroline Fourest dissects the public pronouncements of Tariq Ramadan. Drawing on his numerous books, articles and speeches as sources, she demonstrates with chilling clarity that the West has been beguiled by Ramadan's doublespeak. Tariq Ramadan is slippery. He says one thing to his faithful Islamist followers and something else entirely to his Western audience. His choice of words, the formulations he uses - even his tone of voice - vary, chameleon-like, according to his audience. In most people, this would be merely funny or irritating, but Tariq Ramadan is too influential a figure to be dismissed so lightly. Caroline Fourest does an incalculable service. In this long-overdue English translation of Brother Tariq she proves, once and for all, that Tariq Ramadan is not to be trusted. Ramadan has been portrayed as the Martin Luther King of Islam. This study reveals that he is a far more sinister character at the forefront of a militant and reactionary Islam.