Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The style of writing often held to be characteristic of newspapers and magazines, distinguished by clichés, sensationalism, and triteness of thought.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A style of writing fit only for rapid newspaper work; a style abounding in pretentious words and sudden colloquialisms and making crude bids for popularity.
Wiktionary
- n. A style of writing used in some newspapers and magazines, characterized by cliché, hyperbolic language and clipped syntax.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the linguistic style in which newspapers are written.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the style in which newspapers are written
Etymologies
- journal + -ese (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese').”
“QUOTE ABOVE: This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese').”
“This, of course, leads to that particular form of "journalese" in which a cricket-ball becomes a "leathern missile" and so forth.”
“journalese;" and as the picturesque reporter is a greater power in”
“Is sufficiently — er — journalese?" he interrupted suavely.”
“Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation.”
“Military imagery has long been a staple of political rhetoric--and of political journalese.”
“This relatively new adjective (first recorded in 1907) has lately become something of a minor irritant to a few usage commentators, who have described it variously as ‘journalese’ (Zinsser 1976), ‘a suspicious overstatement for “perceptive”’ (Strunk & White 1979) and ‘jargon’ (Janis 1984).”
“Such scandalous journalese, however, pales in comparison to the appalling treatment of friends and relatives of Ethiopian passengers.”
The Huffington Post: Flight ET409 Exposes Lebanon's Racist Underbelly
“In another he dubs Variety's founder "osteopath of the English language and inventor of some of the most unfettered journalese ever to be set in type.”
The Wall Street Journal: MoMA Marches to the Beat of History
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘journalese’.
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INTERP - challenges
abbreviations, abstractness, abstruse terms, accent, activation of kno..., adequacy, allusions, arcane expressions, attention splitting, availability of i..., badly drafted speech, baroque sentences and 171 more...
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INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
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WF - esey
The suffix -ese in action
Bernese, Genoese, Siamese, Maltese, Congolese, Taiwanese, Sudanese, Nepalese, Burmese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Lebanese and 64 more...
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-ese
of a country/language; in the style of
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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Words to Use
habitué, hackney, harpy, harridan, hedonism, hootenanny, callipygous, lucubrate, pococurante, querulous, recondite, susurrus and 110 more...
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