The Language of Exclusion

Our language has been separated into two parts.

There is Public language-enormous, rich, varied and more or less powerless. Then there is Corporatist language, attached to power and action. Corporatist language itself breaks down into three types. Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Dialect. […] Not the old-fashioned regional dialects, but the specialized, inward looking verbal mechanisms (I’m avoiding the word language because they are not language; they do not communicate) of tens of thousands of monopolies of fractured knowledge. These are what I call the dialects of individual corporations. The social science dialects, the linguist dialects, the artist dialects. Thousands and thousands of them,purposely impenetrable to the non-expert, with thick defensive walls that protect each corporation’s sense of importance.
Obscurity suggests complexity, which suggests importance. The dialects are thus more or less conscious weapons of self-protection and unconscious tools of self-deception.(Saul 47-48)