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Talk Is Cheap : Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Minnesota John Haiman Professor of Linguistics Macalester College
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-02-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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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 exper
Talk is Cheap
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: John Haiman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Talk Is Cheap begins with this telling observation and proceeds to argue that such "unplain speaking" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. John Hai
Talk Is Cheap
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: John Haiman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-03-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 exper
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The rhetorical trope of irony is well-trod territory, with books and essays devoted to its use by a wide range of medieval and Renaissance writers, from the Beo
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