Public Doublespeak: On Beholding and Becoming.

Moran, Terence P.

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Publication Date: 1974

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Public Doublespeak: On Beholding and Becoming

Moran, Terence P.

College English, 36, 2, 190-4,199-201, Oct 74

Our linguistic environment is so polluted at every level that meaningless, uncritical pseudocommunication is becoming the preferred norm even among the highly educated. (JH)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Commercial Television, Communication (Thought Transfer), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, Information Dissemination, Journalism, Language, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Mass Media, Semantics, Syntax

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