死亡判决：陈词滥调，循词和管理废话是如何扼杀大众语言的Death Sentences
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作者： Don Watson著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2005-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 173印刷时间： 2005/03/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781592401406包装： 精装内容简介
When was the last time you heard a politician use words that rang with truth and meaning? Do your eyes glaze over when you read a letter from your bank or insurance company addressing you as a valued customer? Does your mind shut down when your employer starts talking about making a commitment going forward or enhancing your key competencies? Are you enervated by in terms of, irritated by impactful, infuriated by downsizing, rightsizing, decruiting, and dejobbing? Does business process re-engineering and attriting fail to give you ramp-up—in terms of your personal lifestyle?
Today’s corporations, news media, education departments—and, perhaps most troubling, politicians—speak to us and to each other in clichéd, impenetrable, lifeless babble. Toni Morrison has called it the “disabled and disabling” language of the powerful, “evacuated language,” and “dead language.” Orwell called it “anesthetic” language. In Death Sentences, Don Watson takes up the fight against it: the pestilence of bullet points, the dearth of verbs, the buzzwords, the weasel words and cant, the Newspeak of a kind Orwell could not have imagined.
Published in Australia in November 2003, Death Sentences gained a massive following among the legions of bright, sensitive people who Could Not Take It Anymore. More than a year later, it remains a national bestseller.
目录
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
The Dark and Impenetrable Thicket
CHAPTER 2
Core Commitments Going Forward
CHAPTER 3
The Post—Truth Environment
Conclusion
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
