Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language — Don Watson

Title: Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
Author: Don Watson
Publisher: Knopf (Random House Australia)
ISBN: 1-74051-206-5
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition: First edition, 2003

Condition: Good second-hand condition. Light shelf wear to dust jacket with minor creasing. Book itself clean and intact.

A sharp and widely cited critique of bureaucratic and corporate language. Don Watson dissects how vague, inflated, and evasive language shapes politics, business, and public life.

Draws on real examples from government reports, corporate communications, and institutional writing to show how meaning gets obscured behind jargon and empty phrasing.