ISBN:
9780199750757
,
0199750750
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 296 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Humez, Alexander Short cuts
DDC:
302.22
Keywords:
English language Terms and phrases
;
Dictionaries
;
English language Dictionaries
;
Idioms
;
Figures of speech Dictionaries
;
English language Dictionaries Idioms
;
Figures of speech Dictionaries
;
English language Terms and phrases
;
Dictionaries
;
Social Science
;
English language ; Idioms
;
Figures of speech
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies
;
Dictionaries
;
English language
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Wörterbuch
Abstract:
Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline. Celebrating our long history of compact speech, Short Cuts offers a well-researched and vibrantly written account of this unsung corner of the linguistic world, inspiring a new appreciation of the wondrously varied forms of our briefest exchanges. Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, and Rob Flynn shed light here on an ever-growing field of minimalist genres, ranging f
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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