Wooden language
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Wooden language is a literal translation of the French expression langue de bois meaning language that uses vague, ambiguous, abstract or pompous words in order to divert attention from the salient issues.
The French phrase became widely used during the 1970s and 1980s, arriving in the language from Russian, via Polish. The equivalent Russian expression was used to mock the bureaucratic language of czarist and, particularly, later communist officials of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the other Eastern European Communist countries.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Caparini 2006, p. 203
[edit] Sources
- 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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