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Political English : language and the decay of politics / Thomas Docherty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019Description: 237 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781350101395
  • 9781350101388
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.014 D657 2019
LOC classification:
  • P119.3 .D63 2019
Contents:
1. On pluck: English and money -- 2. English nativism and linguistic xenophobia -- 3. Fundamentalist English; or the stiff upper lip -- 4. On truth and lying in a political sense -- 5. Words, deeds, and democracy -- 6. Profanity and free speech -- 7. Remnants of dissent -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-233) and index.

1. On pluck: English and money -- 2. English nativism and linguistic xenophobia -- 3. Fundamentalist English; or the stiff upper lip -- 4. On truth and lying in a political sense -- 5. Words, deeds, and democracy -- 6. Profanity and free speech -- 7. Remnants of dissent -- Index.

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