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| Author | : Jonathon Green |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1445 |
| Release | : 2013-10-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1317908171 |
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.
| Author | : Tim Phillips |
| Publisher | : Kogan Page Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2011-09-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0749463651 |
Tim Phillips has been a journalist for 20 years, and during that time he has been slowly driven crazy by bad spokespeople: the jargon, the evasiveness, the inability to make a point or to answer a direct question. Now that every company has a small army dedicated to communications, the problem seems to be getting worse. That's why we should stop thinking about spin and management, and start concentrating on talking like human beings. Is this possible? Talk Normal is an attempt to find out. Based on the author's blog, www.talknormal.co.uk it's full of excruciating examples of corporate jargon, and it will help you to steer a path to better communication, whilst coping with the worst excesses of management speak at work.
| Author | : Theodor W. Adorno |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780810106574 |
A philosophical critique of Heidegger and modern German thought that focuses on the validity of existentialist jargon and the relationship between language and truth. Bibliogs.
| Author | : Keith Allan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2006-10-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139457608 |
Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.
| Author | : Diane Ravitch |
| Publisher | : ASCD |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1416605754 |
Every profession has its own language. Education is no exception and like other professions, the language of education is often incomprehensible to those outside the field. This book is the author's attempt to explain in everyday language the esoteric terms, expressions, and buzzwords used in U.S. education today.--[from preface].
| Author | : Gareth Branwyn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : |
Every era in America has its own language, every new culture its own lingo. "JargonWatch" documents the tortured and often hilarious new terminology that comes out of the high-pressure work environments of Silicon Valley, midtown Manhattan, and Hollywood, and captures the language of the new American culture while mocking its newness.
| Author | : Suzan St. Maur |
| Publisher | : Business Expert Press |
| Total Pages | : 117 |
| Release | : 2018-05-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1948976080 |
Jargon and slang have wormed their way into almost every business document, speech, and conversation that we have today. With online business communications being much more conversational and informal than the written business communications of the past, they positively encourage the use of figurative speech: ergo, more jargon, more slang. This book is by no means all encompassing, but the author has researched and shared several hundred of the most commonly used terms. Not only do we now know what they all mean but, where appropriate, we also learn their origins—some of which are fascinating and very surprising. A very valuable handbook for any student or practitioner in business to help demystify this crazy language called “English.”
| Author | : Cesare Lombroso |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2006-07-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780822337232 |
A new translation of Lombroso's L'Homme Delinquente, with a new scholarly introduction.
| Author | : Robin Williams |
| Publisher | : Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press,cc1993. |
| Total Pages | : 692 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : |
Defines both technical and informal computer terms and explains the concept behind each term.
| Author | : Connie C. Eble |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780807845844 |
Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions.
