Bureaucratic language in government and business
Drawing on documents cited in class action lawsuits brought against the Social Security Administration and Medicare, Shuy offers a detailed linguistic analysis of these agencies' problems with written and oral communication, and he outlines a training program he developed for government writers...
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Washington, D.C.
Georgetown University Press
1998
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