Arguments for Management Speak

Question 1

Define Management-Speak

Answer 1

A sociolect used by people at a managerial level in a business

Question 2

What 3 features does Management-speak use?

Answer 2

Jargon, Metaphors, Idioms

Question 3

What is the Plain English Campaign Definition of management-speak?

Answer 3

It is unnecessary jargon used to make people sound more intelligent than they actually are

Question 4

What is an idiom used in management speak said to get all of the bad things out of a sentence?

Answer 4

“Throw the baby out of the bathwater”

Question 5

Name 2 Metaphors in Management-speak, one about being more specific with details and one about giving a broader view on something?

Answer 5

Drilling down, and Helicopter View

Question 6

What type of language is management-speak? What does the media think about this?

Answer 6

Management-speak is actually Idiomatic language, but the media refuse to acknowledge this

Question 7

Name the Jargon term for an Information Collection

Answer 7

Espitemic Closure

Question 8

Who said the term “Epistemic Closure” and in what context?

Answer 8

David Brooks said it about the Republicans in an Interview

Question 9

What happened with the Jargon term Brooks used showing that very few people know Jargon?

Answer 9

The whole interview ended up being used to talk about the term

Question 10

How can you use the point with Brooks as an argument for management speak?

Answer 10

If it is a term only used within a specific group of people, then it should likely stay that way as it could take a lot of time to learn it if you are not in that Discourse Community

Question 11

Name an Idiomatic phrase used in places other than management-speak and what it means

Answer 11

“Spill the beans” means to tell the truth

Question 12

Explain how casual Idioms existing supports the argument for management-speak

Answer 12

Because if Idioms can be used in casual conversations, then why do different Idioms have to be criticised in businesses?

Question 13

What is a second argument supporting management-speak?

Answer 13

People to not understand the importance of it in its appropriate workplace

Question 14

How would you support your second argument? Why?

Answer 14

Certain metaphors must be used as there is no way which is more simple to describe something sometimes

Question 15

What is the third argument in support of management-speak? Why?

Answer 15

Phrases such as “Helicopter view” evoke a certain meaning in a worker as a high-powered machine is used in the description, meaning a larger need for high energy in the task

Question 16

How can you support your third argument in support of management-speak?

Answer 16

Messages in a workplace must sometimes be intensified, or once again may not be able to be put in simpler terms

Question 17

What is the fourth argument point in support of management-speak? Why?

Answer 17

Using phrases which only people understand in the office makes communication much easier because people who work there may not have conflicting meanings with the phrases

Question 18

How would you support your fourth argument point in support of management-speak? What do articles against management-speak usually say?

Answer 18

Articles against management speak seem to have unjust anger, when occupation-specific idioms can help workers bond

Question 19

What is the 5th argument for supporting management-speak?

Answer 19

Diversity of language is celebrated in other social areas, so why not an office?

Question 20

How could you support your 5th argument for supporting management-speak?

Answer 20

By highlighting not only the efficiency of the language used in the work environment, but also acknowledging what is suitable within the Jargon and what could possibly be eliminated

Question 21

What is a 6th argument for supporting management speak?

Answer 21

Jargon helps to create bonds between people who use it

Question 22

How could you support your 6th argument for supporting management speak?

Answer 22

Spolsky argues that the language people use only specific to their social group helps to form bonds between the people who use it

Question 23

What is a 7th argument for supporting management speak in relation to Legalese?

Answer 23

Legalese is essential as the law is a profession of words

Question 24

How could you support your 7th argument for supporting management-speak?

Answer 24

Mellinkoff said that this was the classification of this occupation