TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,Don
TI  - Death sentence: the decay of public language 
SN  - 1740512065
AV  - PE3601 .W37 2003
U1  - 427.994 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Syndey, New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - English language
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Australia
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Usage
KW  - Language and culture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198); Tertiary/Undergraduate; General
N2  - 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
ER  -