Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business Rita Debnath Winner of the 2017 Poetry

Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award

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Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business Rita Debnath Winner of the 2017 PoetryPlunging into the verbal quagmire of official language used by bureaucrats in both government and business, distinguished linguist Roger W. Shuy develops new techniques based on linguistic principles to improve their communication with the public. Shuy presents nine case studies that reveal representative problems with bureaucratic language. He characterizes the traits of bureaucratic language candidly, though somewhat sympathetically, and he