Death Sentence The Decay of Public Language
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Don Watson is the author of Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, which won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award, and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year; Death Sentence, which won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year; Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words; and American Journeys, which won The Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Book of the Year, the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction, and the Walkley Non-Fiction Award. In 2010 Don was awarded the Phillip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Australian Literature. Since 2003 his website weaselwords.com.au has been documenting the viral spread of management-speak and the decline of public language. His critically acclaimed 2014 book The Bush recently won the Indie Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Literary Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781740512060 |
| ISBN 10 | 1740512065 |
| Title | Death Sentence The Decay of Public Language |
| Author | Don Watson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2005-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2003 |
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