Steven Poole
Unspeak
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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.
| Category(ies): | philosophy, politics, society |
| Publisher: | Grove Press |
| ISBN Number: | 0802118259 |


