Double Speak Language Analysis

The art of language-Doublespeak As we all know that language is a kind of art, you can use different ways to express same meaning. For example, if you go to someone’s funeral, when you want to comfort the dead guy’s relatives, you can’t say, “die”, instead, you should say, “pass away”, these two words contains the same meaning but the second one is not as sensitive as the previous one, this is the power of words. Different expressions give listener different feelings. What people said contains not only one meaning is very common in our life, sometimes people use these words as a tool to mislead others, we call this conduct “doublespeak”. In the article “the world of double speak”, the crystal William Lutz defined doublespeak as language that seems to be used to communicate but really doesn’t, he said that “ Doublespeak is not a …show more content…
For example, US Statement Department announced that they would not to say “killing” anymore, instead, they use “unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life” to express this meaning which is more peaceful. Jargon is also a kind of doublespeak, because some professional people often use their jargon to mislead people. Gobbledygook is often used by politicians in a political stage. William Lutz said in his book “gobbledygook is simply a matter of piling on words, of overwhelming the audience which words, the bigger the words and the longer the sentences the better.” Some politicians use it to get benefit, like NASA’s associate administrator, Jesse Moore use this kind of doublespeak in telling about shuttle program. What he said doesn’t make sense in some aspect. We usually see inflated language in our daily life, as referred in the book, “it is designed to make ordinary seem extraordinary.” If you have vanity, you are likely to say inflated language to satisfy yourself, sometimes, it may cause trouble and put you in a danger