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Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English by Flexner & Soukhanov (1997)
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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Como nuevo
- Notas del vendedor
- “An Essentially New Copy - See Photos & Description for additional details!”
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Subject Area
- American English
- California Prop 65 Warning
- N/A
- Book Title
- Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth
- Series
- Speaking Freely
- Artist
- Flexner, Stuart Berg [Editor]; Soukhanov, Anne H. [Editor];
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education, High School, Middle School
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- MPN
- Does not apply
- Subject
- Education, American English
- Personalized
- No
- Level
- Intermediate, Advanced, Proficiency
- ISBN
- 9780195106923
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019510692X
ISBN-13
9780195106923
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038286570
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Speaking Freely : a Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley
Publication Year
1997
Subject
Communication Studies, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Linguistics / General, Linguistics / Etymology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
49 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-015369
Reviews
"This lexicon offers a far better insight into 'American English fromPlymouth Rock to Silicon Valley' than most dry-as-dust history texts or culturetomes."--King Features Synd., Inc., "This fascinating exploration of the culture that shaped our language andthe language that shaped our culture draws heavily on Flexner's I Hear AmericaTalking and Listening to America with new material added by Soukhanov."--The SanDiego Union-Tribune, "A sweeping, remarkably current look at the roots and reasons of the U.S.vocabulary."--The Miami Herald, "...takes the reader on a linguistic tour of the United States, and a touras interesting as you will ever take from the comfort of a chair."--Dan Danbom,Arvada Community News, "This fascinating exploration of the culture that shaped our language and the language that shaped our culture draws heavily on Flexner's I Hear America Talking and Listening to America with new material added by Soukhanov."--The San Diego Union-Tribune, "This resource is so readable that it can be browsed or read cover to cover. Recommended for public and academic libraries."--Library Journal, "...takes the reader on a linguistic tour of the United States, and a tour as interesting as you will ever take from the comfort of a chair."--Dan Danbom, Arvada Community News, "This lexicon offers a far better insight into 'American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley' than most dry-as-dust history texts or culture tomes."--King Features Synd., Inc., "Soukhanov, a slam-bang lexie, has telescoped and updated the lateFlexner's easygoing but scholarly I Hear America Talking and Listening toAmerica. The result is a language browser's dream."--William Safire, New YorkTimes Magazine, "A sweeping, remarkably current look at the roots and reasons of the U.S. vocabulary."--The Miami Herald, "This resource is so readable that it can be browsed or read cover tocover. Recommended for public and academic libraries."--Library Journal, "Soukhanov, a slam-bang lexie, has telescoped and updated the late Flexner's easygoing but scholarly I Hear America Talking and Listening to America. The result is a language browser's dream."--William Safire, New York Times Magazine, Enriched with hundreds of illustrations and marginal quotations, the booknot only tells the stories behind Americanisms, their origins and histories, butalso reveals the values, politics, preoccupations, and foibles reflected inthem....Speaking freely, this is the best book to rouse word and Americanabuffs.--Booklist|9780195106923|, Enriched with hundreds of illustrations and marginal quotations, the book not only tells the stories behind Americanisms, their origins and histories, but also reveals the values, politics, preoccupations, and foibles reflected in them....Speaking freely, this is the best book to rouse wordand Americana buffs.--Booklist|9780195106923|, "Here's a book to really impress the recipient, especially if that happensto be someone who considers himself or herself a wordsmith."--Naples DaileyNews, Brush up on some history, improve your word power, amaze friends and family--and all by Speaking Freely.--Nancy Pate, The Orlando Sentinel|9780195106923|, "Here's a book to really impress the recipient, especially if that happens to be someone who considers himself or herself a wordsmith."--Naples Dailey News, Brush up on some history, improve your word power, amaze friends andfamily--and all by Speaking Freely.--Nancy Pate, The Orlando Sentinel|9780195106923|
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
427/.973
Synopsis
How in the world could a loud mouth turn into a trombone and then become a bazooka ? With words, anything is possible, especially if they happen to be American words. The continuous influx of immigrants with their distinctive dialects, the impulse to improvise and experiment, and the relative freedom from rigid social restraints all make America the perfect place for language to percolate, to take on ever-changing shapes and textures and flavors, and to produce an inexhaustible supply of expressive possibilities. In the case of bazooka , we begin with a Dutch word, bazoo , meaning "loud mouth," move to an American comedian, Bob Burns, who called his homemade trombone a bazooka , and end with a U.S. Army Major who saw Burns's act and commandeered the word to name a new anti-tank rocket launcher you could hold on your shoulder. Now, in Speaking Freely , Anne H. Soukhanov, author of the Word Watch column in the Atlantic Monthly and one of America's leading lexicographers, invites us into the irresistible world of words. Drawing on Stuart Berg Flexner's two most popular books-- I Hear America Talking and Listening to America --and adding 40 per cent new material that covers the enormous changes in language over the past twenty years, Soukhanov provides a sweeping look at the richness and astonishing variety of American English. Here we discover not only the origin and history of many of our most delightful words but also the changing cultural conditions that produced them. With chapters on Americanisms, cyberspace, advertising, fighting words, fitness, geography, economics, sex, crime, gender, generation gaps, and many other subjects, Speaking Freely covers the whole spectrum of language in America from the Pilgrims to the present. In the chapter on American's love affair with booze, for instance, we have a rollicking history of all the delectable words we've devised to describe the condition of drunkenness and its insalubrious effects. If, for example, you were to find yourself frequently groggified, half-shaved, full as a fiddler's fart, balmy, owly-eyed, pifflicated, comboozelated, tanglefooted, ossified, petrified, snockered, or wazzocked , you would often suffer the jim-jams , the jitters, the heebie-jeebies , or the screaming meamies the next day, and would eventually come to be seen as an elbow-bender , a guzzler , a rumhead, swiller , or tosspot . Speaking Freely also explains the droves of new expressions entering our vocabularies--the recent concern with ecology giving us such words as biodiversity, ecofriendly , and chloroflurocarbons , and the rise of the personal computer creating a plethora of distinctive terms, from floppy disk, homepage, and hackers to flammage, spam campaigns, barfogenesis, clickstream, cobweb site, cybercreep, and vaporware. Beautifully printed, with over 400 illustrations and a generous offering of quotations from Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain to Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Hardwick, and many others, Speaking Freely takes the lid off the American language and shows us where it is, where it's been, and why it's ours., How in the world could a loud mouth turn into a trombone and then become a bazooka? With words, anything is possible, especially if they happen to be American words. The continuous influx of immigrants with their distinctive dialects, the impulse to improvise and experiment, and the relative freedom from rigid social restraints all make America the perfect place for language to percolate, to take on ever-changing shapes and textures and flavors, and to produce an inexhaustible supply of expressive possibilities. In the case of bazooka, we begin with a Dutch word, bazoo, meaning "loud mouth," move to an American comedian, Bob Burns, who called his homemade trombone a bazooka, and end with a U.S. Army Major who saw Burns's act and commandeered the word to name a new anti-tank rocket launcher you could hold on your shoulder. Now, in Speaking Freely, Anne H. Soukhanov, author of the Word Watch column in the Atlantic Monthly and one of America's leading lexicographers, invites us into the irresistible world of words. Drawing on Stuart Berg Flexner's two most popular books--I Hear America Talking and Listening to America--and adding 40 per cent new material that covers the enormous changes in language over the past twenty years, Soukhanov provides a sweeping look at the richness and astonishing variety of American English. Here we discover not only the origin and history of many of our most delightful words but also the changing cultural conditions that produced them. With chapters on Americanisms, cyberspace, advertising, fighting words, fitness, geography, economics, sex, crime, gender, generation gaps, and many other subjects, Speaking Freely covers the whole spectrum of language in America from the Pilgrims to the present. In the chapter on American's love affair with booze, for instance, we have a rollicking history of all the delectable words we've devised to describe the condition of drunkenness and its insalubrious effects. If, for example, you were to find yourself frequently groggified, half-shaved, full as a fiddler's fart, balmy, owly-eyed, pifflicated, comboozelated, tanglefooted, ossified, petrified, snockered, or wazzocked, you would often suffer the jim-jams, the jitters, the heebie-jeebies, or the screaming meamies the next day, and would eventually come to be seen as an elbow-bender, a guzzler, a rumhead, swiller, or tosspot. Speaking Freely also explains the droves of new expressions entering our vocabularies--the recent concern with ecology giving us such words as biodiversity, ecofriendly, and chloroflurocarbons, and the rise of the personal computer creating a plethora of distinctive terms, from floppy disk, homepage, and hackers to flammage, spam campaigns, barfogenesis, clickstream, cobweb site, cybercreep, and vaporware. Beautifully printed, with over 400 illustrations and a generous offering of quotations from Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain to Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Hardwick, and many others, Speaking Freely takes the lid off the American language and shows us where it is, where it's been, and why it's ours.
LC Classification Number
PE2846.S59 1997
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