Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Doublespeak : Rebel Reads : Book 1 - William Lutz

Doublespeak

By: William Lutz

eBook | 7 March 2016

At a Glance

eBook


RRP $33.81

$27.99

17%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.00 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook or "bureaucratese," and inflated language—showing how each is used in business, advertising, medicine, government, and the military. In this seminal book, Lutz articulates that the goal of doublespeak is "to distort reality and corrupt thought."

on

More in Semantics & Discourse Analysis

Burn This Book : Notes on Literature and Engagement - Toni Morrison

eBOOK

How to Write a Sentence : And How to Read One - Stanley Fish

eBOOK

The Art Of Rhetoric - Aristotle

eBOOK

Ecological Feelings : A Rhetorical Compendium - Joshua Trey Barnett

eBOOK