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  • What Bader (1989) aptly noted about neologisms?
    “getting other people to use your terms is an indication of power” (p. 629).
  • Who suggested that parroting professional language may also disguise one’s lack of knowledge or function as a mechanism to purposely mislead an audience?
    Hirst, 2003; Robins & Crystal, 2019
  • What was Kerr (2005)'s opinion about the use of jargon?
    It is unlikely to change given the profession’s fondness for novelty and a societal value that prioritizes codified prp.nal knwl.ge over uncodified prc. knowhow
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