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'Unspeak' is language as a weapon - 'climate change' is less threatening than 'global warming', and when we say 'ethnic cleansing' we really mean murder. In this book, Steven Poole traces the globalization of this phenomenon, revealing how everyday words are changing the way we think.Poole, Steven is the author of 'Unspeak How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality', published 2006 under ISBN 9780316731003 and ISBN 0316731005.
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