Adjectival / adverbial insistence: PRC emphatic economics

Language Log 2024-12-22

Summary:

Reading PRC articles, they strike me as mostly propagandistic hype and rhetoric, but very little substance.  Simon Cox recognizes that in his "China’s inscrutable economic policy","Drum Tower", Eonomist: F.R. Leavis, an English-literature don, used to complain about something he called “adjectival insistence”. He was thinking of Joseph Conrad, who was a bit too fond of words […]

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

12/22/2024, 17:00

Date published:

12/22/2024, 16:22