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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| 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. |
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| spelling | Humez, Alexander, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80153023 Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version record. Preface: A Quick Tour of the Park; 1 In the Eye of the Beholder: What's Your Sign?; 2 In the Dictionary: The Lexicographers Have Spoken; 3 By the Great Crikes!: Oaths Both Sacred and Profane; 4 On or About Your Person: The Talk of the Territories of the Self; 5 On the Lam: The World of Word Crime; 6 In the News: All That's Fit to Print, and Then Some; 7 On the Phone: Your Call Is Important 2 Us; 8 In the Mail: From SVBE to SWAK; 9 In and Out of Trouble: Warnings, Excuses, and Remedial Work; 10 In the End: Last Words; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index. English language Terms and phrases Dictionaries. English language Idioms Dictionaries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043584 Figures of speech Dictionaries. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Communication Studies. bisacsh English language fast English language Idioms fast Figures of speech fast Dictionaries fast Humez, Nicholas D., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80153102 Flynn, Rob, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014025532 has work: Short cuts (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGFdVWxbWC8x7MkQgwW8kC https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Humez, Alexander. Short cuts. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195389135 (DLC) 2009047667 (OCoLC)467925757 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329450 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Humez, Alexander Humez, Nicholas D. Flynn, Rob Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / Preface: A Quick Tour of the Park; 1 In the Eye of the Beholder: What's Your Sign?; 2 In the Dictionary: The Lexicographers Have Spoken; 3 By the Great Crikes!: Oaths Both Sacred and Profane; 4 On or About Your Person: The Talk of the Territories of the Self; 5 On the Lam: The World of Word Crime; 6 In the News: All That's Fit to Print, and Then Some; 7 On the Phone: Your Call Is Important 2 Us; 8 In the Mail: From SVBE to SWAK; 9 In and Out of Trouble: Warnings, Excuses, and Remedial Work; 10 In the End: Last Words; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index. English language Terms and phrases Dictionaries. English language Idioms Dictionaries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043584 Figures of speech Dictionaries. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Communication Studies. bisacsh English language fast English language Idioms fast Figures of speech fast |
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| title | Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / |
| title_auth | Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / |
| title_exact_search | Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / |
| title_full | Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn. |
| title_fullStr | Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Short cuts : a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn. |
| title_short | Short cuts : |
| title_sort | short cuts a guide to oaths ring tones ransom notes famous last words and other forms of minimalist communication |
| title_sub | a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication / |
| topic | English language Terms and phrases Dictionaries. English language Idioms Dictionaries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043584 Figures of speech Dictionaries. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Communication Studies. bisacsh English language fast English language Idioms fast Figures of speech fast |
| topic_facet | English language Terms and phrases Dictionaries. English language Idioms Dictionaries. Figures of speech Dictionaries. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Communication Studies. English language English language Idioms Figures of speech Dictionaries |
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