Doublespeak

Robert Saob

Dollieslager

Doublespeak in the News examples

Aziz, Sarah. Trump’s doublespeak in Saudi Arabia. CNN. May 21, 2017. https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/21/opinions/trump-muslim-speech-opinion-aziz/index.html. Access Date: 3/ 22/ 17.

“First, Trump preaches peace and prosperity in his speech, but then sells weapons to the Saudis, which will inevitably fuel war. Trump treats terrorism in the Middle East as a business opportunity to create jobs at home and enrich defense industry tycoons.”

MacRae, Heather. Double-Speak: The European Union and Gender Parity. West European Politics. Taylor and Francis Online. Feb. 27, 2012. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2011.648008?scroll=top&needAccess=true.

Access Date: 3/ 22/18

The article talks about the promises the UN council made about granting office to more female members. Yet the process of office holding still holds the same standards and is predominantly male.

Moller, Almut. Germany’s defense doublespeak. While Germany's role in security is of increasing importance, German politicians must downplay it for a domestic audience. Ecfr. April 21, 2016. http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_germanys_defence_doublespeak7008. access date: 3/22/18

Germany’s foreign security policy has been heavily tightened and due to politics and public morale, it had to be down played by the government. “The change in German security policy is well under way, and even more so is the realisation that this does indeed involve talking openly about this to the German people. The public, then, is only now starting to reflect on the changing nature of their country’s outlook and the responsibility and burdensome task that comes with a stronger German role in security.”

Singh, Gayeti. United States Military Doublespeak. Military doublespeak. The Citizen. November 30, 2014. http://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/newsdetail/index/1/1532/united-states-military-doublespeak. Access date: 3/22/18

“All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms,”- Thomas Stowell

“No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”

Ackerman writes that he was made to sign the order, but the nature of operations he witnessed whilst stationed in Afghanistan involved “dossier upon dossier … Taliban senior leaders, Al Qaeda operatives, each one targeted for killing.”