Gobbledygook : how clichés, sludge and management-speak are strangling our public language / Don Wa...
Gobbledygook : how clichés, sludge and management-speak are strangling our public language / Don Wa...
Gobbledygook : how clichés, sludge and management-speak are strangling our public language / Don Watson.
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Publisher
London : Atlantic Books, 2004, c2003.
Date
2004, c2003.
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427.994/78
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English
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xvii, 155 p. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher
London : Atlantic Books, 2004, c2003.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2004, c2003.
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Summary
Today's corporations, government departments, news media and politicians speak to each other and to us in cliched, impenetrable, lifeless sludge. In Death Sentence, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Watson takes a blowtorch to the words and their users, who kill joy and clarity.
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Gobbledygook : how clichés, sludge and management-speak are strangling our public language / Don Watson.
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Previously published entitled: Death sentence. Milsons Point, NSW : Knopf Random House Australia, 2003.
Bibliography: p. 153-155.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
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427.994/78
Record Identifier
74VKDXlvN33l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKDXlvN33l
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ISBN
1843543567
9781843543565
DDC
427.994
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991019011859702626
