YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
Wajnryb Ruth
Oprawa:
MIĘKKA
Wydawca:
Cambridge University Press
Data premiery:
2008-09-25
ISBN:
9780521703741
Opis produktu
Dr Ruth Wajnryb is an applied linguist researcher and writer with a weekly column WORDS in The Sydney Morning Herald. She has written many books on language typically using a linguistic lens to look at social interaction. She is currently writing a detective novel about a forensic linguist.Celebrated writer and linguist Ruth Wajnryb explores how and why our language works the way it does.Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes but not always. Whos using a word and to whom in what context for what purpose all these influence the meaning of the language we use. Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes but not always. Whos using a word and to whom in what context for what purpose all these influence the meaning of the language we use. Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words like sardines in a tin or milk in a bottle. After all words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary arent they? But dictionaries only take us so far If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation rushing to a dictionary with its definitions frozen in time wouldnt help much. Whos using a word and to whom in what context for what purpose all these influence the meaning of the language we use. The words origins and history (its genetics) also help. Try teaching yourself another language from a phrasebook and youll soon learn that you can be correct in the formal sense but still way behind the times in reality. In this book Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.1. Nuts and bolts: 2. Word behaviours: 3. Between the lines: 4. Political: 5. Inspired by books films and media: 6. Gender: 7. Texttypes: 8. Fields of discourse: 9. Word biographies: 10. World Englishes.Data Publikacji: 2008-09-25
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