Unspeak: Words are Weapons
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基本信息·出版社：Abacus
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2007年02月
·ISBN：0349119244
·条形码：9780349119243
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. 'Climate change' is less threatening than 'global warming'; we say 'ethnic cleansing' when we mean mass murder. As we absorb and repeat Unspeak we are accepting the messages that politicians, businessmen and military agencies wish us to believe. Operation Iraqi Freedom did more than put a positive spin on the American war with Iraq; it gave the invasion such a likeable name that the American news networks quickly adopted it as their tagline for reporting on the war. By repackaging the language we use to describe international affairs or domestic politics, Unspeak tries to make controversial issues unspeakable and, therefore, unquestionable. In this thought-provoking and important book, Steven Poole traces the globalizing wave of modern Unspeak from culture wars to the culture of war and reveals how everyday words are changing the way we think.
作者简介 Steven Poole reviews and writes on literature and culture for the GUARDIAN. He is the author of TRIGGER HAPPY, a critically acclaimed study of the aesthetics and culture of videogames.
媒体推荐 ** 'Steven Poole's admirable object is something like moral alertness, founded on close reading. Unspeak is in the best sense a stimulus and a provocation. Unmasking unspeak is addictive, and anyone can play' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ** 'Poole's archaeology of everyday terms is impressive and salutary' OBSERVER ** 'The book's central purpose is to remind us to unpack the terms in which public debate is framed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY **'A study of [Unspeak] is not just ttimely and welcome but (you'll feel once you've read this book) urgent. ...we should all be grateful to Steven Poole for his public spiritedness in undertaking it. Will someone please give him a medal, or a governmen
编辑推荐 Review ** 'Steven Poole's admirable object is something like moral alertness, founded on close reading. Unspeak is in the best sense a stimulus and a provocation. Unmasking unspeak is addictive, and anyone can play' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ** 'Poole's archaeology of everyday terms is impressive and salutary' OBSERVER ** 'The book's central purpose is to remind us to unpack the terms in which public debate is framed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY **'A study of [Unspeak] is not just ttimely and welcome but (you'll feel once you've read this book) urgent. ...we should all be grateful to Steven Poole for his public spiritedness in undertaking it. Will someone please give him a medal, or a governmen
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'Crap from start to finish'
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST 'An extemely well-written, compelling polemic . . . Essential reading'
TIME OUT 'Engaging, illuminating'
TRIBUNE `Insightful . . . If you are interested in the use - and abuse - of language, this book makes compelling reading'
