Speaking freely: a guided tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley

Explores "the origin and history of many of our most delightful words ... [and] the changing cultural conditions that produced them. With chapters on Americanisms, cyberspace, advertising, fighting words, fitness, geography, economics, sex, crime, gender, generation gaps, and many other subject...

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Hauptverfasser: Flexner, Stuart Berg 1928-1990 (VerfasserIn), Soukhanov, Anne H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1997
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Zusammenfassung:Explores "the origin and history of many of our most delightful words ... [and] the changing cultural conditions that produced them. With chapters on Americanisms, cyberspace, advertising, fighting words, fitness, geography, economics, sex, crime, gender, generation gaps, and many other subjects."--Jacket.
Beschreibung:VII, 472 S. zahlr. Ill.
ISBN:019510692X

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