Unspeak
Words Are Weapons
$64.84
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2007
Summary
Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. ‘Climate change’ is less threatening than ‘global warming’; we say ‘ethnic cleansing’ when we mean mass murder. As we absorb and repeat Unspeak we are accepting the messages that politicians, businessmen and military agencies wish us to believe. Operation Iraqi Freedom did more than put a positive spin on the American war with Iraq; it gave the inva…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349119243 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349119244 |
| Author: | Steven Poole |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 201mm x 20mm |
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A study of [UNSPEAK] is not just ttimely and welcome but (you’ll feel once you’ve read this book) urgent. …we should all be grateful to Steven Poole for his public spiritedness in undertaking it. Will someone please give him a medal, or a government office, or a slot on the radio with daily updates? - Claire Harman, EVENING STANDARD
Poole has a sharp eye for hidden meanings and sub-texts. His account of politician s’ addiction to the word “community” is a tour de force. By emphasising that one should always “look to the language”, and going about his task with such forensic brio, Po - Francis Wheen, THE LIBERALSteven Poole is to rhetorial doublespeak what the small boy was to the naked emperor: a pin to prick the speech bubbles - SUNDAY HERALDSteven Poole is to rhetorical doublespeak what the small boy was to the naked emperor: a pin to prick the speech bubbles … UNSPEAK sets out the case against, and also offers forensic analysis of, some of the most notorious examples he has found… UNSP - SCOTSMANAbout The Author
Steven Poole
Steven Poole reviews and writes on literature and culture for the GUARDIAN. He is the author of TRIGGER HAPPY, a critically acclaimed study of the aesthetics and culture of videogames.
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