[PDF] Jargon eBook

Author : Eddie Martin
Publisher : Beecroft Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0954618610

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This second edition of Computer Jargon Dictionary and Thesaurus now has almost 1400 widely used items of computer jargon. It has been updated to include many more Internet terms. The items listed are words, phrases and acronyms, and a brief description is supplied for each, explaining the meaning of the item. Where the book excels, is in the Thesaurus aspect. Readers will be able to search a list of Thesaurus items linked to each definition to find other words, phrases and acronyms of similar meaning and relevance. Specialist Computing's Dictionary and Thesaurus of Computer Jargon will prove an invaluable and indispensable companion for people who are not so computer literate. It can be used in the home, at work or for study and education. -1400 definitions of computer jargon -A MUST for every home -Simple and concise -Includes Acronym definitions -Good value for money -A true cross reference guide -Ideal for the home, school or office -Indispensable for those wanting to learn about computers

Author : Tim Phillips
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2011-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749463651

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Tim Phillips has been a journalist for 20 years, and during that time he has been slowly driven crazy by bad spokespeople: the jargon, the evasiveness, the inability to make a point or to answer a direct question. Now that every company has a small army dedicated to communications, the problem seems to be getting worse. That's why we should stop thinking about spin and management, and start concentrating on talking like human beings. Is this possible? Talk Normal is an attempt to find out. Based on the author's blog, www.talknormal.co.uk it's full of excruciating examples of corporate jargon, and it will help you to steer a path to better communication, whilst coping with the worst excesses of management speak at work.

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1445 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317908171

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First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810106574

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A philosophical critique of Heidegger and modern German thought that focuses on the validity of existentialist jargon and the relationship between language and truth. Bibliogs.

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131790818X

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First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.

Author : Robin Williams
Publisher : Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press,cc1993.
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN :

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Defines both technical and informal computer terms and explains the concept behind each term.

Author : Chuck McCutcheon
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1611686032

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To the amusement of the pundits and the regret of the electorate, our modern political jargon has become even more brazenly two-faced and obfuscatory than ever. Where once we had Muckrakers, now we have Bed-Wetters. Where Blue Dogs once slept peaceably in the sun, Attack Dogs now roam the land. During election season--a near constant these days--the coded rhetoric of candidates and their spin doctors, and the deliberately meaningless but toxic semiotics of the wing nuts and backbenchers, reach near-Orwellian levels of self-satisfaction, vitriol, and deceit. The average NPR or talk radio listener, MSNBC or Fox News viewer, or blameless New York Times or Wall Street Journal reader is likely to be perplexed, nonplussed, and lulled into a state of apathetic resignation and civic somnolence by the rapid-fire incomprehensibility of political pronouncement and commentary--which is, frankly, putting us exactly where the pundits want us. Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes is a tonic and a corrective. It is a reference and field guide to the language of politics by two veteran observers that not only defines terms and phrases but also explains their history and etymology, describes who uses them against whom, and why, and reveals the most telling, infamous, amusing, and shocking examples of their recent use. It is a handbook of lexicography for the Wonkette and This Town generation, a sleeker, more modern Safire's Political Dictionary, and a concise, pointed, bipartisan guide to the lies, obfuscations, and helical constructions of modern American political language, as practiced by real-life versions of the characters on House of Cards.

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1416605754

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Every profession has its own language. Education is no exception and like other professions, the language of education is often incomprehensible to those outside the field. This book is the author's attempt to explain in everyday language the esoteric terms, expressions, and buzzwords used in U.S. education today.--[from preface].

Author : Suzan St. Maur
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1948976080

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Jargon and slang have wormed their way into almost every business document, speech, and conversation that we have today. With online business communications being much more conversational and informal than the written business communications of the past, they positively encourage the use of figurative speech: ergo, more jargon, more slang. This book is by no means all encompassing, but the author has researched and shared several hundred of the most commonly used terms. Not only do we now know what they all mean but, where appropriate, we also learn their origins—some of which are fascinating and very surprising. A very valuable handbook for any student or practitioner in business to help demystify this crazy language called “English.”

Author : Brian Fugere
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743269094

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There is a fundamental disconnection between the way business people speak and real people communicate. From advertisers, big business and CEOs - the blather is coming at us in waves. The International Language of Business is no longer English - it's gobbledygook. The authors blindly discovered the enormity of the problem in June 2003 with the launch of Bullfighter, an anti-jargon software tool. But jargon is just one symptom in a larger problem afflicting corporate communications today: the wholesale inability to connect with an audience. In the form of admirably straight-talk, we discover how to avoid the 'obscurity trap', 'the anonymity trap', the 'hard-sell trap' and most importantly, 'the tedium trap'. In this witty and practical new book readers are given all the tools they need to fight the 'spin' and learn to speak like the rest of us.