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- Officialese abstract "Not to be confused with official language, a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction..Officialese or bureaucratese is a derogatory term for language that sounds official. It is the "language of officialdom". Officialese is characterized by a preference for wordy, long sentences; a preference for complex words, code words or buzzwords over simple, traditional ones; a preference for vagueness over directness and a preference for passive over active voice (some of those elements may, however, vary between different times and languages). The history of officialese can be traced to the history of officialdom, as far back as the eldest human civilizations and their surviving official writings.Officialese is meant to impress the listener (or reader) and increase the authority (more than the social status) of the user, making him or her appear more professional. Ernest Gowers noted that officialese also allows the user to remain vague. It can be used to make oneself understood to insiders while being hard to decipher by those unfamiliar with the jargon and subtexts used. Its use is known to put off members of the general public and reduce their interest in the material presented. Officialese has been criticized as making one's speech or prose "stilted, convoluted, and sometimes even indecipherable" and simply as the "cancer of language". It is thus more pejoratively classified as one of the types of gobbledygook. Its use can also result in unintended humorous incidents, and has been often satirized.Several similar concepts to officialese exist, including genteelism, commercialese, academese and journalese. The existence of officialese has been recognized by a number of organizations, which have made attempts to curtail its use (see Plain Language Movement).".
- Officialese wikiPageExternalLink show.cgi?fid=46591.
- Officialese wikiPageExternalLink 973061.
- Officialese wikiPageID "36863990".
- Officialese wikiPageLength "6518".
- Officialese wikiPageOutDegree "21".
- Officialese wikiPageRevisionID "639192047".
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Active_voice.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Authority.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Bureaucracy.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Business_speak.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Buzzword.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Buzzwords.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Category:Language_varieties_and_styles.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Code_word_(figure_of_speech).
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Corporate_jargon.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Derogatory.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Ernest_Gowers.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Gibberish.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Gobbledygook.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Humphrey_Appleby.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Jargon.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Legal_English.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Legalese.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Manual_of_style.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Official.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Official_language.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Officialdom.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Passive_voice.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Pejorative.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Plain_Language_Movement.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Plain_language.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Satire.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Social_status.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLink Style_guide.
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLinkText "Officialese".
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLinkText "genteel".
- Officialese wikiPageWikiLinkText "officialese".
- Officialese hasPhotoCollection Officialese.
- Officialese wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Officialese subject Category:Language_varieties_and_styles.
- Officialese type Language.
- Officialese type Language.
- Officialese type Variety.
- Officialese comment "Not to be confused with official language, a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction..Officialese or bureaucratese is a derogatory term for language that sounds official. It is the "language of officialdom".".
- Officialese label "Officialese".
- Officialese sameAs Verwaltungssprache.
- Officialese sameAs Linguaggio_burocratico.
- Officialese sameAs m.0lqghz8.
- Officialese sameAs Канцелярит.
- Officialese sameAs Q1424126.
- Officialese sameAs Q1424126.
- Officialese wasDerivedFrom Officialese?oldid=639192047.
- Officialese homepage show.cgi?fid=46591.
- Officialese isPrimaryTopicOf Officialese.