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Double-talk is a form of speech in which inappropriate, invented, or nonsense words are interpolated into normal speech to give the appearance of knowledge, and thus confuse or amuse the audience. [ 1 ]
Doubletalk, double talk, or double-talk may refer to: Doublespeak, language that is deceptively ambiguous; Gibberish (language game), a phonetically modified version of English; Double-talk, speech including nonsense syllables that appears erudite
Double-talk routines Abraham Kalish (December 18, 1896, [ nb 1 ] [ 1 ] – September 7, 1966), known by the stage name Al Kelly , was an American vaudeville comedian. Kelly was known as a double-talk artist, [ 1 ] and went on to stooge for other comedians such as Willie Howard and Ernie Kovacs . [ 1 ]
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky comment in their book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media that Orwellian doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called dichotomization, a component of media propaganda involving "deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news."
Double Talk is an American game show that aired on the ABC network from August 18 to December 19, 1986. [1] The show was a Bob Stewart-produced word game which borrowed elements from Stewart's previous show Shoot for the Stars and his then-current editions of Pyramid. Double Talk was hosted by actor and frequent Pyramid panelist Henry Polic II.
Kathryn Ann Woolard (born in Wellsville, New York, 1950) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. [1] She specializes in linguistic anthropology and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.
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