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PE1689 .H86 2010eb
PE1689
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H86
2010eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0195389131
(Number (ISBN
0199750750
(Number (ISBN
1282702793
(Number (ISBN
9780195389135
(Number (ISBN
9780199750757
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9781282702790
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b703192
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Short cuts :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication /
First Statement of Responsibility
Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
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MIL
Stock Number
270279
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Title
Short cuts.
International Standard Book Number
9780195389135
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
LAN-- 004000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
302
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2/2
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PE1689
Book number
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H86
2010eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Humez, Alexander
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Flynn, Rob
Humez, Nicholas D.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201207184314.0
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