Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing), [1] in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth

2023年9月28日 · Political doublespeak: The Republican National Committee credited Ronald Reagan for a cost-of-living increase in Social Security that originated from a law that passed before he took office.

2022年10月26日 · In politics, doublespeak is used to mask intentions and support ideologies or narratives that may be untruthful or unpopular. Because of the desire to stay safe or maintain social harmony, people may ignore or overlook doublespeak even if they know its meaning.

2018年4月2日 · Political Doublespeak "Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." (George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946)

2019年9月8日 · 英语中不说 old people，而说 senior citizens. 这些是euphemism，不是doublespeak,因为委婉语的目的主要是软化语气，显得礼貌，而doublespeak的主要目的是欺骗、掩盖真相、转移公众视线。 读到这里，我想大家应该已经理解doublespeak的涵义了。

In politics, doublespeak is used to mask intentions and support ideologies or narratives that may be untruthful or unpopular. Because of the desire to stay safe or maintain social harmony, people may ignore or overlook doublespeak even if they know its meaning.

2023年10月14日 · The current study focuses on 'the language of Doublespeak' political debate precisely American one. Doublespeak is refers to language that intentionally conceals, distorts, or reverses the...

2013年5月1日 · Doublespeak has become the norm of political and military language, as well as certain aspects of communication within a medical context: the general public has been willfully deceived into...

2019年9月11日 · Within this context, the present paper seeks to study how the use of doublespeak serves for the empowerment of the self and the dis-empowerment of the other. The study of this topic consists in...

In this project, I presented the analysis of the candidates’ styles of doublespeak based on the number of occurrences and a technique that I called “The Beguilement and Sophistry Index”, which calculates the average number of instances of doublespeak per 1,000 words.