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1) Doublespeak: from "revenue enhancement" to "terminal living" : how government, business, advertisers, and others use language to deceive you

Author

Lutz, William

Publisher

Harper & Row

Publication Date

1989

Edition

Not Supplied

Language

English

2) The new doublespeak: why no one knows what anyone's saying anymore

Author

Lutz, William

Publisher

Not Supplied

Publication Date

1996

Edition

Not Supplied

Language

English

3) Doublespeak: from "revenue enhancement" to "terminal living"

Author

Lutz, William

Publisher

HarperCollins

Publication Date

1990.

Edition

1st HarperPerennial ed.

Language

English

Description

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How government, business, advertisers, and others use language to deceive you. --Title page.

4) Newspeak, a dictionary of jargon

Author

Green, Jonathon

Publisher

Routledge and Regan Paul

Publication Date

1984.

Edition

Not Supplied

Language

English

5) The book of jargon: an essential guide to the inside languages of today

Author

Miller, Don Ethan, 1947-

Publisher

Macmillan

Publication Date

[1982]

Edition

Not Supplied

Language

English

6) Dent's modern tribes: the secret languages of Britain

Author

Dent, Susie

Publisher

John Murray

Publication Date

2017.

Edition

Not Supplied

Language

English

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Did you know that...a soldier's biggest social blunder is a jack brew - making a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That twitchers have an expression for a bird that can't be identified - LBJ (Little Brown Job)? Or that builders call plastering the ceiling doing Lionel Richie's dancefloor? From the freemason's handshake to the publican's banter, Dent's Modern Tribes takes us on a whirlwind tour of Britain, decoding its secret languages and,...