Doublespeak
From 'Revenue Enhancement' to 'Terminal Living': How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11112970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edwin Battistella (corresponding author), William Lutz |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 410 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/415147 |
| OpenAlex | W1994823374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Advertising · Business · Government (linguistics) · Linguistics · Revenue · Telecommunications · Terminal (telecommunication) · Computer Science · Finance · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Legal Language and Interpretation · Philosophy · Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |