Ms. Dwyer of Pace says she has been "really, really shocked at the blatant manipulative language" that some sites use to describe their corporate services to industry versus how they describe themselves to consumers.
The only thing worse than meaningless language is manipulative language.
Nonviolent Communication holds that most conflicts between individuals or groups arise from miscommunication about their human needs, due to coercive or manipulative language that aims to induce fear, guilt, shame, etc.
Ernst argues that when it is used rhetorically, religious language cannot be taken at face value because of its political implications.
They are invoking their favoured moral considerations and cloaking them in the (rhetorically compelling) language of dignity.
Antiwar opinions and activities have now been driven to the peripheries of the political system along with a word like, say, "peace," which you will be hard-pressed to find, even rhetorically, in the language of "wartime" Washington.
The answer: She intends to confound and dismay". "Mrs. Lessing has narrowed her cosmic focus to a specific issue, namely the manipulative use of language and words.
George Orwell famously worried about the corrosive effect on language of manipulative governments; in later years, adspeak and textspeak have presented themselves as threats.
In this review, we have adopted a comparative approach to the origins of cerebral specialization by focusing on communicative behaviors, including language, and manipulative activities.
These stories, by turns thrilling, humorous and touching, need to be read: Kipling's language is rhetorically thick, every sentence charged, yet the action fast-moving.
Puzo's strategy of rhetorical inversion, overturning conventional moral presuppositions of right and wrong, enforces a new understanding of the manipulative and treacherous capacities of language.
