Unspeak: Words Are Weapons - Couverture rigide

Poole, Steven

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316731005 ISBN 13 : 9780316731003

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 2007

Synopsis

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 invasion such a likeable phrase that the American news networks quickly adopted it as their tagline for reporting on the war. By repackaging the language we use to describe international affairs or domestic politics, Unspeak tries to make controversial issues unspeakable and, therefore, unquestionable. In this astounding book, Steven Poole traces the globalizing wave of modern Unspeak from culture wars to the culture of war and reveals how everyday words are changing the way we think.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Steven Poole is a contracted writer for the GUARDIAN, on literary and cultural subjects. He is the author of TRIGGER HAPPY, a critically acclaimed study of the aesthetics and culture of videogames.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316731005
• ISBN 13: 9780316731003
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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