Unspeak
Subtitle: how words become weapons, how weapons become a message, and how that message becomes reality
By: Steven Poole
Edition: 1st. American ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780802118257
Subjects: Political aspects; Aspect politique; Sprache; Woordgebruik; Ideologie; Politik; Langage et langues; Language and languages; Politieke aspecten
Description: Looks at how we are bombarded everyday with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings, tracing the globalizing wave of modern "unspeak" from culture wars to the culture of war and revealing how ordinary words are changing the way we think.
Notes: Originally published: London : Little, Brown, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Community; title: Nature; title: Tragedy; title: Operations; title: Terror; title: Abuse; title: Freedom; title: Extremism.