Talk is Cheap

Talk is Cheap
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9780195115253
ISBN-13 : 0195115252
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Book Synopsis Talk is Cheap by : John Haiman

Download or read book Talk is Cheap written by John Haiman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Haiman traces this sea-change in our language usage to the emergence of a postmodern "divided self" who is hyper-conscious that what he or she is saying has been said before. Thus, "cheap talk" helps us distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable. Haiman examines the full range of these pervasive distancing mechanisms, from cliches and quotation marks to camp and parody. Also, he highlights ways in which language is evolving (and has evolved) from non-linguistic behavior. His book shows us how what we are saying is continually separating itself from how we say it.


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