Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language - Softcover
Citing the disturbing overuse of buzzwords and clichés in the business world and political arena, an analysis of the consequences of ineffective terminology invites readers to resist rhetoric and desensitizing verbiage while returning to more meaningful and sincere communications practices. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Praise for Don Watson’s Death Sentences:
"Don Watson has written a fine and necessary book. Any citizen who neglects to read it does so at his or her peril."
–Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper’s Magazine
"[a] marvelous polemic..."
–forbes.com
"...captures the powerlessness and frustration we feel when confronted by meaningless words delivered with authority."
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Watson makes an eloquent, elegant, and sometimes scathing case for taking back language from those who would trip it of all color and emotion and, therefore, of all meaning.
–Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist
"...many lessons and insights in this book..."
–Leigh Buchanan, Harvard Business Review
"[Watson is] always clear and precise, even when exposing the verbal pollution that passes for wisdom in the public realm."
–Toronto Star
About the Author:
"Don Watson has written a fine and necessary book. Any citizen who neglects to read it does so at his or her peril."
–Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper’s Magazine
"[a] marvelous polemic..."
–forbes.com
"...captures the powerlessness and frustration we feel when confronted by meaningless words delivered with authority."
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Watson makes an eloquent, elegant, and sometimes scathing case for taking back language from those who would trip it of all color and emotion and, therefore, of all meaning.
–Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist
"...many lessons and insights in this book..."
–Leigh Buchanan, Harvard Business Review
"[Watson is] always clear and precise, even when exposing the verbal pollution that passes for wisdom in the public realm."
–Toronto Star
DON WATSON is one of AustraliaÂ’s best-known writers and public intellectuals. For more than twenty-five years he has written books, essays, and reviews for the stage and television. He was for part of his life a political satirist and for another part a political speechwriter, including four years with Paul Keating, the former Labor prime minister. His 2001 Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM was a #1 national bestseller and a multiple award-winner. He lectures widely on writing and language.
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- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1592402054
- ISBN 13 9781592402052
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