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Talking in Cliches - The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse and Communication (Paperback)
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Talking in Cliches - The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse and Communication (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles: 9 900
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For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of
language, have considered cliches as a hackneyed, tired, lazy,
unthinking and uninspiring form of communication. Authored by two
established scholars in the fields of Systemic-Functional
Linguistics and Discourse Studies and Pragmatics, this cutting-edge
book comprehensively explores the perception and use of cliches in
language from these complementary perspectives. It draws data from
a variety of both written and spoken sources, to re-interrogate and
re-imagine the nature, role and usage of cliches, identifying the
innovative and creative ways in which the concepts are utilised in
communication, interaction, and in self-presentation. Observing a
rich, complex layering of usage, the authors deconstruct the many
and varied ways in which cliches operate and are interdependently
constructed; from the role they play in discourse in general, to
their functions as argumentative strategies, as constructs of
social cognition, as politeness strategies, and finally as markers
of identity.
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