LEADER 04981nam 22007215 450 001 9910255108803321 005 20230809222803.0 010 $a3-319-51682-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-51682-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001080034 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-51682-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6315530 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5594566 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5594566 035 $a(OCoLC)1076259069 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001080034 100 $a20170228d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage $eSecond Edition /$fby Michael Shapiro 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXVIII, 517 p.) 225 1 $aSpringer Texts in Education,$x2366-7672 311 $a3-319-51681-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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. . 330 $a 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. Fernandez, The University of Chicago. 410 0$aSpringer Texts in Education,$x2366-7672 606 $aLanguage and education 606 $aComparative linguistics 606 $aPhilology 606 $aLinguistics 606 $aEnglish language 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aLanguage Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O23000 606 $aComparative Linguistics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N19000 606 $aLanguage and Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N29000 606 $aEnglish$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N49000 606 $aSemiotics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N53000 615 0$aLanguage and education. 615 0$aComparative linguistics. 615 0$aPhilology. 615 0$aLinguistics. 615 0$aEnglish language. 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 14$aLanguage Education. 615 24$aComparative Linguistics. 615 24$aLanguage and Literature. 615 24$aEnglish. 615 24$aSemiotics. 676 $a407.1 700 $aShapiro$b Michael$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$067246 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255108803321 996 $aThe Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage$92533456 997 $aUNINA