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Question 1

Doublespeak for obfuscation (political)

Answer 1

• Cost of living relief
• Operational matters

Question 2

Doublespeak for obfuscation (corporate)

Answer 2

• Dynamic Pricing
• Small contained ignition

Question 3

Jargon for communicative efficiency

Answer 3

• Contested possessions
• ZKP, DDI

Question 4

ND language promoting social Harmony

Answer 4

• People with disabilities
• Participant

Question 5

ND language policing and censorship

Answer 5

• Non Compliant
• Injection drug use

Question 6

Excessive ND threatening social harmony

Answer 6

• Larger bodied women
• Harmony Day

Question 7

Jargon for Authority and expertise/IGM

Answer 7

• Tonalism
• Phenols, Phenolic glycosides

Question 8

Cost of living relief

Answer 8

• April ‘25
• Cook govt branded itelf as generous provider of financial assistance to WA families with school aged children
• Guise of positvely connoted noun phrase
• Abstract noun ‘relief’ portrays WA govt as a compassionate saviour in cost of living crisis
• Cook govt manipulates public perception towards itself before elections
• Obfuscates transiency and futility of $250 payment on Australian’s monatery struggles

Question 9

Operational Matters

Answer 9

• April ‘25
• Positively connoted pre-modifying adj ‘operational’
• impression of full scale, tactical assault on illegal asylum seekers
• obfuscates reality of unethical, unconscionable detainment and subsequent deportation of these immigrants
• obfuscates human rights violations and abuse
• public perception is manipulated by portraying asylum seekers as infiltrating and jeopardising australian society by stealthily and illegally entering the country
• public perception is manipulated by elevating the govt as guardians and protectors of national security

Question 10

Dynamic pricing

Answer 10

• Feb 25’
• Aus Govt crackdown on ‘dynamic pricing’ by AFL clubs
• Euphemistic noun phrase
• Inflating price of tickets during price of high demand
• premodifying adj ‘dynamic’ elicits positive connotations of flexible, adaptive, capable of meeting public demands
• reality of artificially inflated prices in a relentless persuit of profits is buried under the euphemistic veneer
• clubs euphemistic doublespeak exonerates themselves form unethical corp. practices to to the detriment of fair, equitable customer relationships

Question 11

Small contained Ignition

Answer 11

• April ‘25
• Anglo American described an incident at the Moranbah North mine as a ‘small contained ignition’
• Eupemistic noun phrase employs litotes to downplay the true nature of the fire in the mine
• premodifying adj small, contained elicit pos. connotations of managebility and harmlessness
• v ‘ignition’ avoids directly addressing the fire , decreasing pulbic scrutiny
• company deliberately downplays severity
• preserves repuation and avoids responsibility