Death sentence : the decay of public language / Don Watson.

By:

Watson, Don, 1949- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Syndey ; New York : Knopf, 2003Description: 198 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1740512065
9781740512060

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

427.994 22

LOC classification:

PE3601 .W37 2003

Summary: Today's corporations, government departments, news media and politicians speak to each other and to us in cliched, impenetrable, lifeless sludge. In Death Sentence, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Watson takes a blowtorch to the words and their users, who kill joy and clarity.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	427.994 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A297485B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198).

Today's corporations, government departments, news media and politicians speak to each other and to us in cliched, impenetrable, lifeless sludge. In Death Sentence, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Watson takes a blowtorch to the words and their users, who kill joy and clarity.