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PE1689 .H86 2010eb
PE1689
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H86
2010eb
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0195389131
0199750750
1282702793
9780195389135
9780199750757
9781282702790
b703192
Short cuts :
[Book]
a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication /
Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: A Quick Tour of the Park; 1 In the Eye of the Beholder: What's Your Sign?; 2 In the Dictionary: The Lexicographers Have Spoken; 3 By the Great Crikes!: Oaths Both Sacred and Profane; 4 On or About Your Person: The Talk of the Territories of the Self; 5 On the Lam: The World of Word Crime; 6 In the News: All That's Fit to Print, and Then Some; 7 On the Phone: Your Call Is Important 2 Us; 8 In the Mail: From SVBE to SWAK; 9 In and Out of Trouble: Warnings, Excuses, and Remedial Work; 10 In the End: Last Words; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.
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Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline. Celebrating our long history of compact speech, Short Cuts offers a well-researched and vibrantly written account of this unsung corner of the linguistic world, inspiring a new appreciation of the wondrously varied forms of our briefest exchanges. Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, and Rob Flynn shed light here on an ever-growing field of minimalist genres, ranging f.
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270279
Short cuts.
9780195389135
English language-- Idioms, Dictionaries.
English language, Terms and phrases, Dictionaries.
Figures of speech, Dictionaries.
English language-- Idioms.
English language.
Figures of speech.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.
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PE1689
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H86
2010eb
Humez, Alexander
Flynn, Rob
Humez, Nicholas D.
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