PPT-Doublespeak

Jessica Welch Mini Lesson Doublespeak Doublespeak often called double talk is the distortion changing or switching of words to make an unpleasant tricky or otherwise negative situation not sound as awful . Form of Doublespeak in American. Presidential Debates. Mgr. Pavel Reich. Masaryk University, Brno. Outline. Basic units of lexical doublespeak – purr and snarl words, hidden bias. Euphemisms. Results of the research. Mgr. Pavel Reich. 1. Outline. Hidden bias as a form of doublespeak. Presidential Debates. Example of the use of hidden bias. Results of the analysis. 2. Doublespeak. Doublespeak - language that pretends to communicate but really doesn’t. It is language that makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, the unpleasant appear attractive or at least tolerable. Doublespeak is language that avoids or shifts responsibility, language that is at variance with its real or purported meaning. It is language which conceals or prevents thought; rather than extending thought, doublespeak limits it (Lutz 1990:1). A Bleak Look into a Possible Future. Dystopia. A . dystopia. (from the Greek . δυσ. - and . τό. πος, which means “Bad Place”) is a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening.. In . 1984. , Newspeak, Doublespeak and Double . think . are all tools for the reduction of words in order to control expression and thought of the people.. Doublespeak. It creates the reality that the government wants..