Blooming English : observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English language / Kate Burridge.

By:

Burridge, Kate [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: v, 242 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521839483
9780521839488
0521548322
9780521548328

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

420 22

LOC classification:

PE1072 .B83 2004

Contents:

Why a garden? -- The complexity of language -- Language change -- Word creation -- Meaning shifts -- Relics of linguistic change -- The nature of exotics -- Bad language -- Colloquial today, standard English tomorrow -- Our untidy English -- Sound symbolism -- What is correct English? -- Dictionaries, style guides and grammars -- Personal names -- Dirty words -- Taboo language.

Review: "This book celebrates our capacity to play with language, as well as examining the ways we use it: in slang and jargon, swearing, speaking the unspeakable, or concealing unpleasant or inconvenient facts. It is a book for browsing, for finding intriguing snippets about language, history and social customs, and a formidable weapon in word games."--BOOK JACKET.

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Originally published: Sydney : ABC Books, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-235) and index.

"This book celebrates our capacity to play with language, as well as examining the ways we use it: in slang and jargon, swearing, speaking the unspeakable, or concealing unpleasant or inconvenient facts. It is a book for browsing, for finding intriguing snippets about language, history and social customs, and a formidable weapon in word games."--BOOK JACKET.

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