Plastic words : the tyranny of a modular language

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Plastic words : the tyranny of a modular language

Uwe Poerksen ; translated by Jutta Mason and David Cayley

Pennsylvania State University Press, c1995

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Plastikwörter : die Sprache einer internationalen Diktatur

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Plastikwörter

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First published in Germany: Klett-Cotta, c1988

Bibliography: p. [105]-109

Includes index

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The progress of words once scientific with a specialized meaning, which have become interchangeable and combinable, is documented here. This text traces the development of "plastic words", establishes criteria for identifying them and provides a tragicomic critique of the society that uses them.

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