Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published April 11, 2006 by Grove Press.
Unspeak
How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality
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Looks at how we are bombarded everyday with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings, tracing the globalizing wave of modern "unspeak" from culture wars to the culture of war and revealing how ordinary words are changing the way we think.
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- Political aspects
- Language and languages
- Political Rhetoric
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
- Sociolinguistics
- Language
- Rhetoric
- Etymology
- Journalism
- Language Arts & Disciplines / Etymology
- History & Theory - General