Blooming English花开英语
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作者： Kate Burridge 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2004-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 242印刷时间： 2004/06/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521548328包装： 平装内容简介
English is the most creative, changeable and imaginative of languages. Some words are invented to meet temporary needs and are quickly discarded; others carry meanings hundreds of years old. Language fascinates us, and we spend a lot of time playing with it, concocting everything from puns, riddles and secret languages to wonderful prose and poetry. We also worry about it a great deal, looking up and checking words in dictionaries and usage guides, occasionally arguing about definitions. This book celebrates our capacity to play with language, as well as examining the ways we use it: in slang and jargon, swearing, speaking the unspeakable, or concealing unpleasant or inconvenient facts. It is a book for browsing, for finding beguiling snippets about language, history and social customs, and for using as a formidable weapon in word games.
作者简介：
Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. She is well known for her broadcasts on ABC Radio's Soundback.
目录
Why a Garden?
The Complexity of Language
Language Change
Word Creation
Meaning Shifts
Relics of Linguistic Change
The Nature of Exotics
Bad Language
Colloquial Today, Standard English Tomorrow
Our Untidy English
Sound Symbolism
What is Correct English?
Dictionaries, Style Guides and Grammars
Personal Names
Dirty Words
Taboo Language
References
Index