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jargon (jar.) [jär′gən] Etymology: Fr, jargonner, to speak indistinctly 1 incoherent speech or gibberish. 2 a terminology used by scientists, artists, or others of a professional subculture that is not understood by the general population. 3 a state in child language acquisition characterized by strings of babbled sounds paired with gestures. jargon How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While Representing Black Men is an important contribution to critical theory, its accessibility is often limited by the book's abstruseness: its tendency toward jargonistic theory couched in a sesquipedalian vocabulary. The words are unsystematized, jargonistic, and perhaps ephemeral, but they express the work in a way that standardized vocabulary would obscure. Books by academics, usually written in defense of the multicultural project, have tended to be jargonistic and persuasive only to the already convinced. |
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