"Death Sentence, The Decay of Public Language"

Author Don Watson has a new book out, the title used as the title for this post, wherein Watson "defends a language he says is being mangled by the globalising forces of obfuscation." From the review of Watson’s book,

"The book charts how “managerial language” has infiltrated the English of politics, business, bureaucracy, education and the arts. The book is about the rise of core strategies and key performance indicators, and the death of clarity and irony and funny old things called verbs. It is about a new language that Watson calls sludge and clag and gruel. Those three blunt words speak to the book’s larger intention. Death Sentence is also a manifesto, the first shots, Watson hopes, in a campaign everyone can join to bring the language back to life."

Here’s the link to the rest of the review.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by on 12/22 at 05:12 AM

  1. Hmmm...sounds like a paradigm shift.

    (ducks)

    Posted by david  on  12/25  at  01:28 AM

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