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T�tulo: It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use ...

Editorial: Oxford University Press

A�o de publicaci�n: 2014

Encuadernaci�n: Paperback

Condici�n: Very Good

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Careful writers and speakers agree that clich�s 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 clich�. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clich�s and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left in them. Indeed, clich�s can be useful -- even powerful. And few people even agree on which expressions are clich�s and which are not. Many regard any frequent idiom as a clich�, and a phrase regarded as a clich� 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 clich�s. They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions for eliminating clich�s 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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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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