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Hard Cover. Oxford University Press. Clean Text, No Water Damage, Strong Binding. Small Bump on Crown of Spine. DJ Not Included. Acceptable Condition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better. ISBN 0195115244 9780195115246 [US]
Oxford University Press, USA 1998 Hard Cover Oxford University Press. Clean Text, No Water Damage, Strong Binding. Small Bump on Crown of Spine. DJ Not Included. Acceptable Condition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.
Oxford University Press, USA 1998 Hard cover No dust jacket. Ex-library book. Due date pocket included. \r\n\r\nSigns of wear/scuffs/stickers/tape on front/back cover, flyleaf page, board corners, & bind but book is in good condition. Text is mostly clean & readable. Stitching is tight.
ISBN10: 0195115244, ISBN13: 9780195115246, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover No dust jacket. Ex-library book. Due date pocket included.\r\n\r\nSigns of wear/scuffs/stickers/tape on front/back cover, flyleaf page, board corners, & bind but book is in good condition. Text is mostly clean & readable. Stitching is tight. [Skokie, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]
ISBN10: 0195115244, ISBN13: 9780195115246, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1998]
ISBN10: 0195115244, ISBN13: 9780195115246, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1998]
ISBN10: 0195115244, ISBN13: 9780195115246, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old "talk is cheap" maxim carries as much weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to realize that people don't necessarily mean what they say. Phrases such as "Yeah, right" and "I couldn't care less" are so much a part of the way we speak--and the way we live--that we are more likely to notice when they are absent (for example, Forrest Gump). From oureveryday dialogues and conversations ("Thanks a lot!") to the screenplays of our popular films (Pulp Fiction and Fargo), what is said is frequently very different from what is meant.Talk is Cheapbegins with this telling observation and proceeds to argue that such "unplain speaking" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. Author John Haiman traces this sea-change in our use of language to the emergence of a postmodern "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 goes on to examine the full range of these pervasive distancingmechanisms, from cliches and quotation marks to camp and parody. Also, and importantly, this text highlights several new ways in which the English lang ...
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Hardback. New. This study argues that "unplain speaking" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. The author argues that "cheap talk" allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable, while describing how what we are saying becomes separate from how we say it. ISBN 0195115244 9780195115246 [GB]
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ISBN10: 0195115244, ISBN13: 9780195115246, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 1998]
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