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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.
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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