Talking in Clichés: The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse and Communication - Couverture rigide

Bullo, Stella; Bousfield, Derek

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108471633 ISBN 13 : 9781108471633

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of language, have considered clichés as a hackneyed, tired, lazy, unthinking and uninspiring form of communication. Authored by two established scholars in the fields of Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Discourse Studies and Pragmatics, this cutting-edge book comprehensively explores the perception and use of clichés in language from these complementary perspectives. It draws data from a variety of both written and spoken sources, to re-interrogate and re-imagine the nature, role and usage of clichés, identifying the innovative and creative ways in which the concepts are utilised in communication, interaction, and in self-presentation. Observing a rich, complex layering of usage, the authors deconstruct the many and varied ways in which clichés operate and are interdependently constructed; from the role they play in discourse in general, to their functions as argumentative strategies, as constructs of social cognition, as politeness strategies, and finally as markers of identity.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Stella Bullo is a Researcher in Discourse Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Evaluation in Advertising Reception (Palgrave, 2014). Her work on health discourse has been featured in BBC Radio World Service, The Conversation and The New York Times.

Derek Bousfield is Head of Department and Reader in Pragmatics and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University. Prominent publications include Impoliteness in Interaction (John Benjamins, 2008) and Impoliteness in Language (co-edited with Locher, De Gruyter, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108471633
• ISBN 13: 9781108471633
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 275
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie