English Language Contemporary Examples

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IDF spokesperson - ‘operational misunderstanding’

doublespeak

‘poor night visibility’

manipulating

‘Professional failures’

negative face

Hedging

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Jargon + Social Purposes

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The Age - ‘AAA credit rating’

‘S+P/ASX200’

Jargon

Lexicology

Establishing expertise

obfuscation

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Doublespeak

IDF spokesperson - ‘operational misunderstanding’

doublespeak

‘poor night visibility’

manipulating

‘Professional failures’

negative face

Hedging

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Jargon + Social Purposes

The Age - ‘AAA credit rating’

‘S+P/ASX200’

Jargon

Lexicology

Establishing expertise

obfuscation

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Jargon

SBS News → ‘bell-weather seat’

‘Coalition’

Jargon

manipulation

communication

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Euphemisms

Real estate → euphemisms

building raport

‘blank canvas’

manipulate

replace harsher terms

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Low modality verbs

University of Sydney - ‘Australians should pay attention to what Trump just did to Harvard’

Low modality verb

Negative face

clarity

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Non-discriminatory language + social purposes

Australian government - ‘older people’

non-discriminatory language

Social taboos

Build rapport

substituting (morphology)

political correctness

Positive + negative face needs