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Talk Is Cheap - Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,373
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Talk Is Cheap - Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language (Paperback, New): John Haiman

Talk Is Cheap - Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language (Paperback, New)

John Haiman

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In this fascinating book, John Haiman argues that 'cheap talk', in which we don't mean what we say (for instance, by the use of sarcasm and irony) is central to the way we now talk. He traces this radical change in our use of language to the emergence of a post-modern 'divided self' who is hyper-conscious that what he or she is saying has been said before; 'cheap talk' thus allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable. Haiman examines the full range of these pervasive distancing mechanisms, from clichés and quotation marks to camp and parody. In the process he sheds important new light on the ways in which the English language is evolving in responses to our worldview.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2001
First published: April 1998
Authors: John Haiman (Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions: 233 x 154 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511525-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
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LSN: 0-19-511525-2
Barcode: 9780195115253

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