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You know what I mean? :words, contexts and communication /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	428
書名/作者:	You know what I mean? : : words, contexts and communication // Ruth Wajnryb.
作者:	Wajnryb, Ruth,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (225 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	English language - Idioms.
標題:	English language - Usage.
標題:	Lexicology.
標題:	English language - Spoken English.
ISBN:	9780511487064 (ebook)
內容註:	Nuts and bolts -- Word behaviours -- Between the lines -- Political -- Inspired by books, films and media -- Gender -- Text-types -- Fields of discourse -- Word biographies -- World Englishes.
摘要、提要註:	Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes - but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words - like sardines in a tin, or milk in a bottle. After all, words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary aren't they? But dictionaries only take us so far… If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation, rushing to a dictionary - with its definitions frozen in time - wouldn't help much. Who's using a word and to whom, in what context, for what purpose - all these influence the meaning of the language we use. The word's origins and history (its 'genetics') also help. Try teaching yourself another language from a phrasebook and you'll soon learn that you can be correct, in the formal sense, but still way behind the times in reality. In this book Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487064

You know what I mean? :words, contexts and communication /
Wajnryb, Ruth,

You know what I mean? :words, contexts and communication /Ruth Wajnryb. - 1 online resource (225 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nuts and bolts -- Word behaviours -- Between the lines -- Political -- Inspired by books, films and media -- Gender -- Text-types -- Fields of discourse -- Word biographies -- World Englishes.

Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes - but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words - like sardines in a tin, or milk in a bottle. After all, words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary aren't they? But dictionaries only take us so far… If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation, rushing to a dictionary - with its definitions frozen in time - wouldn't help much. Who's using a word and to whom, in what context, for what purpose - all these influence the meaning of the language we use. The word's origins and history (its 'genetics') also help. Try teaching yourself another language from a phrasebook and you'll soon learn that you can be correct, in the formal sense, but still way behind the times in reality. In this book Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.

ISBN: 9780511487064 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

414886
English language
--Idioms.

LC Class. No.: PE1460 / .W215 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 428

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