Problem
Navigating "The World of Doublespeak" by Lutz
1. What are the four kinds of doublespeak classified by Lutz in his essay?.
2. Define each of the four kinds.
3. Which two of the four are sometimes legitimate forms of communication and therefore are not always doublespeak? Differentiate between when they are and when they are not. Explain.
4. Read the examples that Lutz gives for each category of Doublespeak. Certain among them are from before our current era. Look a minimum of three of them up in Wikipedia or in another online or print source. List each one and describe in a few sentences telling what they are. (Example: The Pentagon was trying to get funding for the neutron bomb back in the eighties. It was a nuclear device that could kill all living things in the area but leave the buildings standing. Acccording to Lutz, it was labeled a "radiation enhancement device.")
5. Have you encountered any of these forms of doublespeak in advertising and other propaganda, in the political discourse or elsewhere? Write three of them down and explain in brief what makes each of them doublespeak.
6. What does Lutz claim are the dangers of doublespeak?
7. What are other ways that one can observed in which language has been manipulated for deceptive purposes?