# 15. Linguistic manipulation ## 15.5. Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species #### 15.5.1.1. **Biased vocabulary** Deliberately influential vocabulary is used by the manipulator. So, a conversation with a conservative manipulator will see phrases like "free market", "market driven", "law and order", "defence forces" being banded about whilst, talking to a socialist or liberal we may hear terms such as "free will", "liberation", "human and civil rights", "redistribution of wealth", "social justice", etc. This group of techniques includes journalistic, lexico-semantic, metaphoric manipulation and linguistic invention.