doublespeak and it s impact on coal
1. What is doublespeak and how may it be used to cloud our thinking? How does doublespeak stop short of lying? According to Professor Lutz, how are words used to manipulate reality? The presenter suggests in closing that doublespeak while it can be harmless and amusing at times, can threaten our basic democratic selves. What do you think? Why?
2.After identifying the word or phrase selected from your preliminary research of current events and explaining the event or issue to which it is related, speculate toward the reason(s) motivating the speaker to enlist this form of doublespeak instead of labeling/confirming it in "plain language." To what degree do you think the speaker or source achieves those goals? Why?
1. Doublespeak is the ability to use vague truths and positive deflecting language to redirect a person’s opinion or view on a potentially caustic issue. While not an actual act of lying, doublespeak is structured in such a way that it subconsciously nudges us to accept a more positive form of reality as truth, even if a clearly adverse topic is being presented or confirmed. The structure of doublespeak is enthusiastically circular; it never allows direct confirmation of an undesirable condition or event, yet proposes a more palatable outlook on the topic in question. Careful verbiage is used to discourage the ingesting of a topic in an undesirable interpretation, and to afford the audience more promising descriptions and thought processes to consume instead. Professor Lutz maintains that the doublespeak words actually manifest themselves as the perceived reality, thus softening the blow of a negative situation with optimistic language and careful inflection. A string of positive words is a lot easier to objectify and accept as truth than the actual act of a catastrophe or other harmful action. / For one to refer to their self as democratic, he or she has to believe in the fundamental ideology behind democracy. Government transparency and absolute power
2.After identifying the word or phrase selected from your preliminary research of current events and explaining the event or issue to which it is related, speculate toward the reason(s) motivating the speaker to enlist this form of doublespeak instead of labeling/confirming it in "plain language." To what degree do you think the speaker or source achieves those goals? Why?
1. Doublespeak is the ability to use vague truths and positive deflecting language to redirect a person’s opinion or view on a potentially caustic issue. While not an actual act of lying, doublespeak is structured in such a way that it subconsciously nudges us to accept a more positive form of reality as truth, even if a clearly adverse topic is being presented or confirmed. The structure of doublespeak is enthusiastically circular; it never allows direct confirmation of an undesirable condition or event, yet proposes a more palatable outlook on the topic in question. Careful verbiage is used to discourage the ingesting of a topic in an undesirable interpretation, and to afford the audience more promising descriptions and thought processes to consume instead. Professor Lutz maintains that the doublespeak words actually manifest themselves as the perceived reality, thus softening the blow of a negative situation with optimistic language and careful inflection. A string of positive words is a lot easier to objectify and accept as truth than the actual act of a catastrophe or other harmful action. / For one to refer to their self as democratic, he or she has to believe in the fundamental ideology behind democracy. Government transparency and absolute power