Definition von doublespeak im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Typically used by governments or large institutions
The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a garbage collector turned sanitary engineer or a strike turned work stoppage..
disapproval If you refer to what someone says as doublespeak, you are criticizing them for presenting things in a way that is intended to hide the truth or give people the wrong idea. the doublespeak so fluently used by governments and their press offices. speech that is complicated and can have more than one meaning, sometimes used deliberately to deceive or confuse people = double-talk
doublespeak
Türkische aussprache
dʌbılspik
Aussprache
/ˈdəbəlˌspēk/ /ˈdʌbəlˌspiːk/
Etymologie
[ 'd&-b&l-"spEk ] (noun.) 1952. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.