DEATH SENTENCE: THE DECAY OF PUBLIC LANGUAGE DON WATSON IN SOUTH AFRICA

Free Postage Within SA for Orders Over R900! Softcover. . Vintage. 198 pages. Very good condition. '... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politics it lacks all qualifications for the main game.' Don Watson Almost sixty years ago, George Orwell described the decay of language and why this threatened democratic society. But compared to what we now endure, the public language of Orwell's day brimmed with life and truth. Today's corporations, government departments, news media, and, perhaps most dangerously, politicians - speak to each other and to us in clich'd, impenetrable, lifeless sludge. Don Watson can bear it no longer. In DEATH SENTENCE, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words - and their users - who kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, DEATH SENTENCE is a small book of profound weight - and timeliness. Additional photos on request. Please ask any questions before placing your order.  Many more books available, click here!