Valerie Fridland
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Smart and funny I loved it!" Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing A lively linguistic exploration of the speech habits we love to hate and why our like s and literally s actually make us better communicators Paranoid about the ums and uhs that pepper your presentations? Concerned that people notice your vocal fry? Bewildered by hella or the meteoric rise of so ? What if these...
Author
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Language is not a passive means of communication. In fact, it's the active process through which we construct societies, and, within them, our own social lives and realities. Language - as we use it in our day-to-day interactions - fundamentally shapes our experience, our thinking, our perceptions, and the very social systems within which our lives unfold. Nowhere is the social role of language revealed more clearly than in the fascinating field
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