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The language report / Susie Dent.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: vii, 151 p. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0198608608
  • 9780198608608
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Language report.DDC classification:
  • 428
LOC classification:
  • PE 1630 D414l 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
What goes around : a hundred years of new words -- In the spotlight : the words in the news -- The language innovators : how new words come about -- WAN 2 TLK TXT? -- Words on the catwalk -- Plain cyberspeaking -- Fighting talk : the language of battle -- Talking on message : the new political lexicon -- Riding the soundwaves -- The language traders : business speak -- The word on the pitch : sporting language -- Quotes of the century -- Slanguage on the streets : the new urban slang -- Chewing the linguistic scenery : idioms -- Slogans are forever : the best of advertising -- I'm a celebrity, get me in the dictionary -- Dinky dirts and Tony Blairs : rhyming slang in the 2000s -- Free comment : the art of the headline -- Sticks and stones -- Apostrophe catastrophes : new trends in grammar and usage -- Crossing continents : US English -- Where global meets local : world English -- Sound and fury : the changing pronunciation of British English -- The sound of American English -- Fictional realities : the language of TV.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PE 1630 D414l 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000026869

What goes around : a hundred years of new words -- In the spotlight : the words in the news -- The language innovators : how new words come about -- WAN 2 TLK TXT? -- Words on the catwalk -- Plain cyberspeaking -- Fighting talk : the language of battle -- Talking on message : the new political lexicon -- Riding the soundwaves -- The language traders : business speak -- The word on the pitch : sporting language -- Quotes of the century -- Slanguage on the streets : the new urban slang -- Chewing the linguistic scenery : idioms -- Slogans are forever : the best of advertising -- I'm a celebrity, get me in the dictionary -- Dinky dirts and Tony Blairs : rhyming slang in the 2000s -- Free comment : the art of the headline -- Sticks and stones -- Apostrophe catastrophes : new trends in grammar and usage -- Crossing continents : US English -- Where global meets local : world English -- Sound and fury : the changing pronunciation of British English -- The sound of American English -- Fictional realities : the language of TV.

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