An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language
Almossawi, Ali
| Autor: | Almossawi, Ali |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 09.11.2021 |
| EAN: | 9781615198405 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 96 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Experiment |
| Untertitel: | Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid |
Produktinformationen "An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language"
Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with "loaded language"-be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you'll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave unsaid. Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric-aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, passive voice can pardon wrongdoers, statistics may be a smokescreen, gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, and irrelevant adjectives cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn't naked; he has a clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse's roof becomes flattened (Elephant's foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . . . Fans of Almossawi's An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn't ask for a better primer on the less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what's left unsaid-but when you're a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.
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