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:''Not to be confused with official language, a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction..'' Officialese or bureaucratese〔〔 is a derogatory〔 term for language that sounds official.〔 It is the "language of officialdom".〔 Officialese is characterized by a preference for wordy, long sentences; a preference for complex words, code words or buzzwords over simple, traditional ones; a preference for vagueness over directness and a preference for passive over active voice〔 (some of those elements may, however, vary between different times and languages〔). The history of officialese can be traced to the history of officialdom, as far back as the eldest human civilizations and their surviving official writings.〔 Officialese is meant to impress the listener (or reader) and increase the authority (more than the social status) of the user, making him or her appear more professional.〔〔 Ernest Gowers noted that officialese also allows the user to remain vague.〔 It can be used to make oneself understood to insiders while being hard to decipher by those unfamiliar with the jargon and subtexts used.〔 Its use is known to put off members of the general public and reduce their interest in the material presented.〔 Officialese has been criticized as making one's speech or prose "stilted, convoluted, and sometimes even indecipherable"〔 and simply as the "cancer of language".〔 It is thus more pejoratively classified as one of the types of gobbledygook.〔〔 Its use can also result in unintended humorous incidents, and has been often satirized.〔 Several similar concepts to officialese exist, including ''genteelism'', ''commercialese'', ''academese'' and ''journalese''.〔 The existence of officialese has been recognized by a number of organizations, which have made attempts to curtail its use (see Plain Language Movement).〔〔〔 ==See also== * Bureaucracy * Business speak * Jargon * Legalese * Manual of style * Humphrey Appleby – a fictional character noted for his extremes in officialese 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Officialese」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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