In this book, Kenneth Hudson is concerned with what he calls the Professions, the Near-Professions and the Would-be Professions. 'Technical language', he points out, 'is not in itself jargon, and it is not itself a moral or criminal offence to write or speak in a way that is not in immediately understood by the man in the street.' Every profession necessarily has its own terminology, but much supposedly technical language is bogus, existing only to impress the innocent and unwary. Careful attention is given to showing how jargon and technical languge shade off into one another and to discussing why some occupations generate so much more jargon than others. Kenneth Hudson provides a useful league table of the worst offenders, and concludes that jargon is the natural weapon of highly paid people with nothing to say and everything to lose. Publisher: Macmillan Year: 1978 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780333274484 Condition: Good This image is of the actual book.
