Ain'thology : the history and life of a taboo word / / edited by Patricia Donaher and Seth Katz
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| Titolo: |
Ain'thology : the history and life of a taboo word / / edited by Patricia Donaher and Seth Katz
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| Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 417.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Taboo, Linguistic |
| English language - Semantics | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | DonaherPatricia |
| KatzSeth | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The word ain't is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain't as marking speakers as ""lazy"" or ""stupid""; and the educated assume ain't is on its deathbed, used only in clichés. Everyone has an opinion about ain't. Even the grammar-checker in Microsoft Word flags every ain't with a red underscore. But why? Over the past 100 years, only a few articles and sections of books have reviewed the history of ain't or discussed it in dialect cont... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ain'thology |
| ISBN: | 1-4438-7872-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797224403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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