Wooden language

Wooden language

In rhetoric, wooden language (calque of the French expression "langue de bois") refers to a diverting of attention from reality by using certain words, such as banalities too abstract or pompous, either appealing to sentiment rather than to facts.

It was commonly used in political speeches and newspaper articles in the USSR and the other Eastern European Communist countries, [harvnb|Caparini|2006|p=203] and is still prevalent today in most political spectrums.

See also

* Political correctness
* Weasel word

References

ources

* Caparini, Marina; Fluri, Philipp (2006). "Civil Society and the Security Sector: Concepts and Practices in New Democracies ", LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, ISBN 3825893642.


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