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Unspeak

Steven Poole

2006282 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006Grove Press · 282 pages · ENGISBN 9780802118257

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.

How do you feel?