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  Death Sentence

 
Death Sentence
Author:    Don Watson
Subtitle:    The Decay of Public Language
ISBN:    9781740512787
ISBN-10:    1740512782
Publisher:    Random House Publishers
Date Published:    1/11/2004
Format:    Paperback Book
Language:    English
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Book Description:
' ...in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politics it lacks all qualifications for the main game.' Don Watson Almost sixty years ago, George Orwell described the decay of language and why this threatened democratic society. But compared to what we now endure, the public language of Orwell's day brimmed with life and truth. Today's corporations, government departments, news media, and, perhaps most dangerously, politicians uaspeak to each other and to us in clich'd, impenetrable, lifeless sludge. Don Watson can bear it no longer. In DEATH SENTENCE, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words uaand their users uawho kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, DEATH SENTENCE is a small book of profound weight uaand timeliness.


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