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jargon (Technical language), noun argot, cant, code, coined words, language of a particular profession, legalese, neologism, neology, private language, professional lannuage, professional vocabulary, specialized language, speeialized terminology, specialized vocabulary Associated concepts: legal jargon jargon (Unintelligible language), noun babble, blabber, blather, confused language, confused talk, confusion, double talk, empty talk, foolishness, gibberish, inanity, incoherent discourse, jabber, jumble, nonsensical language, nonsensical talk, prattle, rambling talk, senseless talk, silly talk, unintelligible talk How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While Representing Black Men is an important contribution to critical theory, its accessibility is often limited by the book's abstruseness: its tendency toward jargonistic theory couched in a sesquipedalian vocabulary. The words are unsystematized, jargonistic, and perhaps ephemeral, but they express the work in a way that standardized vocabulary would obscure. Books by academics, usually written in defense of the multicultural project, have tended to be jargonistic and persuasive only to the already convinced. |
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