Doublespeak

Answer to question 2 : Lutz states there are four questions to ask that will unmask doublespeak.  The first one asks "Who is saying what to whom?" which will help determine the situation by knowing exactly what is going on.   After that comes Lutz’s second question “under what conditions and circumstances” this question reveals the benefits of the circumstance.  As when people doublespeak they do it only to benefit one side or another.  As for the third “with what intents” the sinister strategy will be unveiled.  To decipher doublespeak, the purpose must be out in the open.  Lutz gave a fourth and final question “with what results?” to expose any doublespeak embedded by examining what happened in the end.  Looking at a recent result can make any doublespeak obvious.

Answer to question 3 : Euphemism is the first term used by the author in “First Kind of Doublespeak” .  He claims it is “an inoffensive or positive word or phrase used to avoid a harsh, unpleasant, or distasteful reality”.

Next, jargon is mentioned.  Lutz writes “pretentious, obscure, and esoteric terminology used to give an air of profundity, authority, and prestige to speakers and their subject matter”.

The third term is gobbledygook.  He claims in 1974 Alan Greenspan used the technique by saying “It is a tricky problem to find the particular calibration in timing that would be appropriate to stem the acceleration in risk premiums created by falling incomes without prematurely aborting the decline in the inflation-generated risk premiums”.