Publicatie Laka-bibliotheek:
Poisoners of the seas (1988)
| Auteur | K.A.Gourlay |
| Datum | 1988 |
| Classificatie | 6.01.5.52/15 (AFVAL - DUMPEN IN ZEE) |
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Uit de publicatie:
Introduction This book is about poisoning the seas. It is also about words and their users; about euphemisms, soft words designed to conceal hard meanings; technical terms that confuse the reader with science; and jargon, the outworn language of specialists who have lost the ability to use plain words. Sometimes the three combine or interchange; a technical term becomes jargon - or even a euphemism. Their effects are constant - to make non-specialists think the subject beyond their understanding, and to make them feel that things are better than they are. The users are either scientists or lawyers, experts in understatement and the euphemistic phrase, who sprinkle their pages with technical terms, construct sentences from scientific or legal jargon and, through language, establish a monopoly over the subject which others attribute to knowledge. This book aims to break that monopoly.
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