Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language - Haiman, John (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Macalester College, Minnesota) - Books - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780195115253 - February 22, 2001
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Haiman, John (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Macalester College, Minnesota)
Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language

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This study argues that "unplain speaking" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. The author argues that "cheap talk" allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable, while describing how what we are saying becomes separate from how we say it.

230 pages, 9 line illustrations, 3 music examples

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Released February 22, 2001
ISBN13 9780195115253
Publishers Oxford University Press Inc
Pages 232
Dimensions 156 × 229 × 15 mm   ·   376 g
Language English  

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