Book Reviews: Don Watson, Death Sentence: the Decay of Public Language, Vintage, Sydney, 2003. pp. 198. --- Don Watson, Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Clichés, Cant and Management Jargon, Knopf, Sydney, 2004. pp. 357.

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Syson, Ian ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-861X (2005) Book Reviews: Don Watson, Death Sentence: the Decay of Public Language, Vintage, Sydney, 2003. pp. 198. --- Don Watson, Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Clichés, Cant and Management Jargon, Knopf, Sydney, 2004. pp. 357. Labour History (89). 245 - 246. ISSN 0023-6942

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/35839
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 2002 Cultural Studies
Historical > FOR Classification > 2004 Linguistics
Current > Division/Research > College of Arts and Education
Keywords misuse of language; power; deception; dictionaries; lexicons
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