xiv, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-213)

Notes toward a Definition of Doublespeak / William Lutz -- Truisms Are True : Orwell's View of Language / Walker Gibson -- Mr. Orwell, Mr. Schlesinger, and the Language / Hugh Rank -- What Do We Know? / Charles Weingartner -- The Dangers of Singlespeak / Edward M. White -- The Fallacies of Doublespeak / Dennis Rohatyn -- Doublespeak and Ethics / George R. Bramer -- Post-Orwellian Refinements of Doublethink : Will the Real Big Brother Please Stand Up? / Donald Lazere -- Worldthink / Richard Ohmann -- 'Bullets Hurt, Corpses Stink' : George Orwell and the Language of Warfare / Harry Brent -- Political Language : The Art of Saying Nothing / Dan F. Hahn -- Fiddle-Faddle, Flapdoodle, and Balderdash : Some Thoughts about Jargon / Frank J. D'Angelo -- How to Read an Ad : Learning to Read between the Lies / D.G. Kehl -- Subliminal Chainings : Metonymical Doublespeak in Advertising / Don L.F. Nilsen -- Doublespeak and the Polemics of Technology / Scott Buechler -- Make Money, Not Sense : Keep Academia Green / Julia Penelope -- Sensationspeak in America / Roy F. Fox -- The Pop Grammarians--Good Intentions, Silly Ideas, and Doublespeak / Charles Suhor

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