Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, how Weapons Become a Message, and how that Message Becomes Reality

Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, how Weapons Become a Message, and how that Message Becomes Reality

Author: 
Poole, Steven
Place: 
New York
Publisher: 
Grove Press
Phys descriptions: 
282p.
Date published: 
2006
Record type: 
ISBN: 
978-0-8021-1825-7
Call No: 
811:32 POO
Abstract: 

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

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CITATION: Poole, Steven. Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, how Weapons Become a Message, and how that Message Becomes Reality . New York : Grove Press , 2006. - Available at: https://library.au.int/unspeak-how-words-become-weapons-how-weapons-become-message-and-how-message-becomes-reality