Talking in Cliches (eBook)

The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse and Communication

Derek Bousfield, Stella Bullo (Autoren)

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2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-63438-0 (ISBN)

Infos

For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of language, have considered cliches as a hackneyed, tired, lazy, unthinking and uninspiring form of communication. Authored by two established scholars in the fields of Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Discourse Studies and Pragmatics, this cutting-edge book comprehensively explores the perception and use of cliches in language from these complementary perspectives. It draws data from a variety of both written and spoken sources, to re-interrogate and re-imagine the nature, role and usage of cliches, identifying the innovative and creative ways in which the concepts are utilised in communication, interaction, and in self-presentation. Observing a rich, complex layering of usage, the authors deconstruct the many and varied ways in which cliches operate and are interdependently constructed; from the role they play in discourse in general, to their functions as argumentative strategies, as constructs of social cognition, as politeness strategies, and finally as markers of identity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-108-63438-9 / 1108634389
• ISBN-13: 978-1-108-63438-0 / 9781108634380