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An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language

2021-11-09
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language

Author: Ali Almossawi

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781615198412

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 96

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“This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today’s culture wars.”—Hope Jahren The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return with this desperately timely guide to how words can trick us. Learn to “hear” hidden bias, slant, and spin—from an irresistible cast of woodland creatures! Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”—be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave unsaid. Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric—aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, passive voice can pardon wrongdoers, statistics may be a smokescreen, gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, and irrelevant adjectives cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn’t naked; he has a clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse’s roof becomes flattened (Elephant’s foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . . . Fans of Almossawi’s An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn’t ask for a better primer on the less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what’s left unsaid—but when you’re a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language

2022-05-03
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language

Author: Ali Almossawi

Publisher: Scribe Publications

ISBN: 9781922586766

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 96

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The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric. Have you ever wondered how language shapes a story? How a politician can waffle their way out of a scandal, or a newspaper headline determine how readers think about an event? This adorably illustrated book demonstrates the ways in which language can be used to influence thought. Tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the city’s streets on Friday. The actual count was 250,000. Why tens of thousands, then, and not a quarter million? Rabbits zapped three badgers in an ambush last night, hours after six rabbits in a neighbouring town lost their lives. Were the six rabbits the sole participants in losing their own lives? Those silly rabbits … Old Mr Rabbit is your guide to these and many more examples of loaded language. He mines real reporting (by respected and rogue media alike) to unmask rhetoric that shifts blame, erases responsibility, dog-whistles, plays on fear, or rewrites history — subtly or shamelessly. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what’s left unsaid — but when the very notion of truth is at stake, listening for ‘spin’ makes all the difference.

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

2014-09-23
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Author: Ali Almossawi

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781615192267

Category: Philosophy

Page: 64

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“This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company's ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book”—Geoffrey James, INC.com From the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle). Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result (the argument from consequences). Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments—which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.

American Military History

2009
American Military History

Author: Daniel K. Blewett

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSC:32106019833232

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 472

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Blewett tackles the massive array of reference tools in the field of US military history, providing an annotated bibliography that covers major American armed conflicts. The volume begins with general military history reference sources, followed by successive chapters on specific military eras. Other chapters cover arms control and disarmament, terrorism, intelligence, historiography, electronic information sources, library archives, museums, organizations and associations, and journals. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Up with Language Series

1981-01-01
Up with Language Series

Author: Jennifer Johnson

Publisher:

ISBN: 1561750107

Category:

Page:

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In this solidly conceived, practical book, you'll find reliable, easy-to-do activities that will reinforce and enrich your students' language skills. This book is delightfully illustrated, loaded with practice, and superb as an introduction or review.

Language, the Loaded Weapon

1980
Language, the Loaded Weapon

Author: Dwight Bolinger

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

ISBN: UCSC:32106008843242

Category: Language and culture

Page: 232

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Synthesizing the recent scientific works of linguists and anthropologists with the "doctrine of correctness," the author examines the questions of correctness, truth, social dialects, propaganda, official obfuscation and the use of language by those in power to manipulate those under them.