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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage
    sub title: Second Edition
  name:
    name part: Shapiro, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVIII, 517 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore blog. Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contemporary American English, especially cases where language is changing due to innovative usage. In every case where an analysis contains technical or recondite vocabulary, a Glossary precedes the body of the essay, and readers can also consult the Master Glossary which contains all items glossed in the text. The unique form of the book’s presentation is aimed at readers who are alert to the peculiarities of present-day American English as they pertain to pronunciation, grammar, and style, without “dumbing down” or compromising the language in which the explanations are couched. Praise for the First Edition “Michael Shapiro is one of the great thinkers in the realm of linguistics and language use, and his integrated understanding of language and speech in its semantic and pragmatic structure, grammatical and historical grounding, and colloquial to literary stylistic variants is perhaps unmatched today. This book is a treasure to be shared.” Robert S. Hatten, The University of Texas at Austin “Jewel of a book. . . . a gift to us all from Michael Shapiro. Like a Medieval Chapbook it can be a kind of companion whose vignettes on language use can be randomly and profitably consulted at any moment. Some may consider these vignettes opinionated. That would be to ignore how deeply anchored each vignette is in Shapiro’s long and rare polyglot experience with language. It could well serve as a night table book, taken up each night to read and reflect upon ––to ponder––both in the twilight mind and in the deeper reaches of associative somnolence. There is nothing else like it that I know of.” James W. Fernand…
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Preface to the First Edition -- The Physiognomy of Speech -- Chapter One: Sounds -- Chapter Two: Meanings -- Chapter Three: Style -- Chapter Four: Syntax -- Chapter Five: Theory -- Chapter Six: Poetics -- Chapter Seven: The Psycholinguistic Pathos of Everyday Life -- Epilegomenon -- Master Glossary -- Index. .
  note: by Michael Shapiro.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Philology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: English language
  subject:
    topic: Semiotics
  subject:
    topic: Language and education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Language Education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Language and Literature
  subject:
    topic: English
  subject:
    topic: Semiotics
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 407.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Texts in Education
  identifier: 9783319516820
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51682-0
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    record creation date: 170228
    record change date: 20170228032456.0
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