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Publication details [#30590]

Janicki, Karol. 2002. A hindrance to communication: the use of difficult and incomprehensible language. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 12 (2) : 194–217.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers Associates, Inc.
ISBN
0802-6106

Annotation

These studies in folk linguistics show that laypersons point to lawyers, politicians, computer specialists, academics and medical doctors as the heaviest users of difficult and incomprehensible language. They consider this as a serious sociolinguistic problem, that also negatively affects the educational process.