It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés - Tapa dura

Hargraves, Orin

 
9780199315734: It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés
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ISBN 10: 0199315736 ISBN 13: 9780199315734
Editorial: OUP USA, 2014

Sinopsis

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language?

In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left in them. Indeed, clichés can be useful -- even powerful. And few people even agree on which expressions are clichés and which are not. Many regard any frequent idiom as a cliché, and a phrase regarded as a cliché in one context may be seen simply as an effective expression in another. Examples drawn from data about actual usage support Hargraves' identification of true clichés. They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions for eliminating clichés where they serve no useful purpose.

Concise and lively, It's Been Said Before serves as a guide to the most overused phrases in the English language -- and to phrases that are used exactly as often as they should be.

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Acerca del autor

Orin Hargraves is a lexicographer and author of language reference books. He grew up in the mountains of southwestern Colorado and graduated from the University of Chicago. A past president of the Dictionary Society of North America, Hargraves has contributed to dozens of dictionaries and other language reference books. He currently lives in Niwot, Colorado, and researches the computational use of language at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Editorial
OUP USA
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199315736
ISBN 13 
9780199315734
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
248
Contacto del fabricante
Oxford University Press
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9780190624156: It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés

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ISBN 10:  0190624159 ISBN 13:  9780190624156
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