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Publication details [#7900]

Redish, Janish C. 1983. The language of the bureaucracy. In Bailey, Richard W. and Robin Melanie Fosheim, eds. Literacy for life: The demand for reading and writing. Modern Language Association. pp. 151–174.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

bureaucratese

Annotation

R. identifies the (pragmatic) characteristics of traditional bureaucratic language, asks how it became so complexified, and gives reasons why it should be changed.