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'Loaded words' are words (or phrases) which have strong emotional overtones or connotations and which evoke strongly positive (or negative) reactions beyond their literal meaning. The phrase, "tax relief", for example, refers literally to deductions that a person might claim in order to reduce the amount of tax they must pay to their government. However, it is a loaded phrase in that the use of the emotive word, "relief", implies that the tax was an unreasonable burden to begin with.
Use of the phrase, "loaded language", to describe the writing or speech of another implies an accusation of demagoguery, or of pandering to the audience. As an umbrella term, "loaded language" is sometimes used to describe spin, euphemism and doublespeak.
'Loaded questions', on the other hand, do not need to contain any loaded words to be considered as such; they are usually said to be loaded if they make a presupposition. The classic example of a loaded question is, "Have you stopped beating your husband?" - the question presupposes that the subject did at one time beat her husband, making it impossible for that subject to answer without implicitly confirming the presupposition as fact, even if such beatings never occurred.
Common examples of loaded questions arise in interviews where the interviewer wishes to make a biased statement while staying ostensibly within the bounds of unbiased journalism.
A word or phrase that is "loaded" is said to be "value-laden", i.e. it has deep, often emotional associations.
Conversely, a "value-free" word has no evident associations to those who use it.
★ Loaded question
★ Bias
★ Code word
★ Connotation
★ Fallacy of many questions
★ freedom of speech
★ Journalism and Free press
★ morality and ethics issues
★ political correctness
★ Power word
★ Rhetorical device
★ Scientology terminology
★ semantics
★ Sophism
★ Thought Reform (book)
★ Unspeak (book)
'Loaded words' are words (or phrases) which have strong emotional overtones or connotations and which evoke strongly positive (or negative) reactions beyond their literal meaning. The phrase, "tax relief", for example, refers literally to deductions that a person might claim in order to reduce the amount of tax they must pay to their government. However, it is a loaded phrase in that the use of the emotive word, "relief", implies that the tax was an unreasonable burden to begin with.
Use of the phrase, "loaded language", to describe the writing or speech of another implies an accusation of demagoguery, or of pandering to the audience. As an umbrella term, "loaded language" is sometimes used to describe spin, euphemism and doublespeak.
'Loaded questions', on the other hand, do not need to contain any loaded words to be considered as such; they are usually said to be loaded if they make a presupposition. The classic example of a loaded question is, "Have you stopped beating your husband?" - the question presupposes that the subject did at one time beat her husband, making it impossible for that subject to answer without implicitly confirming the presupposition as fact, even if such beatings never occurred.
Common examples of loaded questions arise in interviews where the interviewer wishes to make a biased statement while staying ostensibly within the bounds of unbiased journalism.
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| Value-laden, value-free |
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Value-laden, value-free
A word or phrase that is "loaded" is said to be "value-laden", i.e. it has deep, often emotional associations.
Conversely, a "value-free" word has no evident associations to those who use it.
See also
★ Loaded question
★ Bias
★ Code word
★ Connotation
★ Fallacy of many questions
★ freedom of speech
★ Journalism and Free press
★ morality and ethics issues
★ political correctness
★ Power word
★ Rhetorical device
★ Scientology terminology
★ semantics
★ Sophism
★ Thought Reform (book)
★ Unspeak (book)
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