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Author: Stella Bullo Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108580319 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 211
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For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of language, have considered clichés 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 clichés 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 clichés, 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 clichés 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.
Author: James T. Rogers Publisher: New York : Facts on File ISBN: 9780816010103 Category : Anglais (Langue) - Mots et locutions Languages : en Pages : 305
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Over 2,000 common or amusing cliches, their meanings and origins.
Author: Gary Provost Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1984805614 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 176
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The classic text on writing well, now refreshed and updated—an essential text for writers of all ages. This is the one guide that anyone who writes—whether student, businessperson, or professional writer—should keep on his or her desk. Filled with professional tips and a wealth of instructive examples, 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing can help solve any writing problem. In this compact, easy-to-use volume you'll find the eternal building blocks of good writing—from grammar and punctuation to topic sentences—as well as advice on challenges such as writer's block and creating a strong title. It is a must-have resource—perfect for reading cover to cover, or just for keeping on hand for instant reference—now updated and refreshed for the first time.
Author: Don Watson Publisher: Gotham ISBN: 9781592402052 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 212
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From one of Australia's best-known writers and public intellectuals comes a funny and profound polemic about the sorry state of public language and what can--and must--be done about it.
Author: Rob Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9781760411275 Category : Languages : en Pages : 108
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'If ClichE is a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He's been warned by the Speaker.' - Mike Ladd (poet, founding presenter/producer of ABC RN's Poetica) 'Rob Walker's Original ClichEs is a wry, sardonic, meta-poetic and often very funny exploration of politics, ageing, current affairs, fear, travel, human weaknesses, technology and much more. This is powerful poetry that cuts with razor sharpness through modern pretensions and the clichEs we surround ourselves.' - Magdalena Ball (poet, author, critic, editor of compulsivereader.com) 'Walker's Original ClichEs is a sample bag of poems which twist and turn, probing themselves, and the world, from odd and ingenious angles. He relishes word play and the play of ideas it spawns, one wry eye trained inward while the other peers archly out onto an almost speculative world where what looks like chance could well be synchronicity. '- Michele Seminara (poet, critic and managing editor of Verity La creative arts journal) 'Rob Walker journeys through the world of the clichE - those that we speak, and those that we live - and shows us how the personal is political and the political personal. He travels around the world in search of cultural clichEs and presents us with clichEs of family, love, mental illness and even that old poetic stand-by, the moon. These eminently readable poems delight you, amuse and inspire us to re-examine those things which we take for granted. You will never look at a mouse plague the same way!' - Tracey Korsten (poet, actor, speaker, director, blogger at middleagedlove.com)
Author: Nigel Fountain
Author: Stella Bullo
Author: Nigel Fountain
Author: Orin Hargraves
Author: James T. Rogers
Author: James T. Rogers
Author: Gary Provost
Author: Don Watson
Author: Nancy Loewen
Author: Peggy Rosenthal
Author: Rob Walker