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Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language The Language Trap
by Engel, S. Morris
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- Comments: As S. Morris Engel alerts us in this eye-opening book, we risk falling into potentially harmful language traps every moment. Not just the occasional malapropism or grammatical faux pas, but a more sinister kind - distortions of meaning that would persuade us to believe something that may not be true.Sometimes these language traps are set for us deliberately by politicians, advertisers, journalists, lawyers or other professional persuaders. Sometimes they are set inadvertently by our friends, our loved...
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- ISBN-13: 9780486282749
- ISBN: 0486282740
- Publication Date: 1994
- Publisher: Dover Pubns
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Witty, thought-provoking exploration of government newspeak, exaggerated advertising claims, propaganda and other misuses of language -- and how to combat them.Engel, S. Morris is the author of 'Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language The Language Trap', published 1994 under ISBN 9780486282749 and ISBN 0486282740.
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