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Language is not neutral.
It never was.

Every day, words quietly decide what feels normal, what feels extreme, what feels unquestionable-and what disappears entirely. Long before laws are enforced or power acts openly, language prepares the ground, shaping perception, managing emotion, and narrowing the range of acceptable thought.

In WORDCRAFT, writer and artist Michelle Hoffmann pulls language out of the background and into the light.

This book is not about grammar, rhetoric, or persuasion tricks. It is a field guide to how words operate: how official statements soothe without explaining, how authority frames curiosity as disruption, how repetition turns choices into inevitabilities, and how "common sense" is built through phrases we stop noticing we're repeating.

Moving through authority language, institutional speech, programming logic, ritual, art, and everyday conversation, WORDCRAFT teaches readers how to hear what language is doing, not just what it claims to say. It also asks a harder question: once you see these mechanisms, how do you speak with integrity without becoming manipulative yourself?

Clear, unsettling, and deeply humane, WORDCRAFT is for readers who sense when language feels off but can't always explain why-and who want clarity without cruelty, awareness without cynicism, and agency inside a world built from words.

Because words don't just describe reality.
They build it.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Wordcraft
• Podnázev: How Words Shape Reality, Manage Power, and Teach Us What Not to See
• Autor: Michelle Hoffmann
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 208
• EAN: 9798247540731
• ID: 51240109
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 286 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 11 mm
• Datum vydání: 09. February 2026

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