Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality
by Steven Poole
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Paperback / softback. New. What do the phrases Âpro-life,â Âintelligent design,â and Âthe war on terrorâ have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them Âevaluative-descriptive terms.â Others talk of Âterministic screensâ or discuss the way debates are Âframed.â Author Steven Poole calls them Unspeak. Unspeak represents an attempt by politicians, interest groups, and business corporations to say something without saying it, without getting into an argument and so having to justify itself. At the same time, it tries to unspeak  in the sense of erasing or silencing  any possible opposing point of view by laying a claim right at the start to only one way of looking at a problem. Recalling the vocabulary of George Orwellâs 1984, as an Unspeak phrase becomes a widely used term of public debate, it saturates the mind with one viewpoint while simultaneously makes an opposing view ever more difficult to enunciate. In this fascinating book, Poole traces modern Unspeak and reveals how the evolution of language changes the way we think.
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- Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality
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- Steven Poole
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- Paperback / softback
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0802143059
- ISBN 13
- 9780802143051
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- Grove Press
- This edition first published
- May 10, 2007
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