Short cuts :: a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication /

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 Cut...

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Hauptverfasser: Humez, Alexander (VerfasserIn), Humez, Nicholas D. (VerfasserIn), Flynn, Rob (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199750757
0199750750
9780195389135
0195389131
1282702793
9781282702790

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