The rhetoric of manipulation unmasking semantic perversions / Robert Harvey.
| Author/creator | Harvey, Robert, 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Handedness and underhandedness -- Fighting words -- Scare quotes -- White whine -- "Cancel culture"... -- College, Inc. |
| Abstract | "Arguing that too many of us have let our critical faculties dry up, Robert Harvey opens our ears and eyes to an impediment to free thinking. He unflinchingly examines five dimensions of semantic perversion: the contemporary vocabulary of war; the recent evolution of scare quotes; the terms of white supremacy; the phenomenon of cancel culture; and the jargon deployed in the corporatization of higher education. A frank exposé of bad faith discursive practices and our accompanying gullibility, this book aims at reversing this trend in view of a more ethical future and atoning for some of the damage already done"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024036258 |
| ISBN | 9798765100813 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9798765100806 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (eBook) |
| ISBN | (ePDF) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |