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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:40:02
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: It's Been Said Before: Hargraves

 


Title: It's Been Said Before 
Subtitle: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/its-been-said-before-9780190624156 


Author: Orin Hargraves

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190624156 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 17.95


Abstract:

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided.
However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our
language?

In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar
idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases
became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life
left in them. Indeed, clichés can be useful -- even powerful. And few people
even agree on which expressions are clichés and which are not. Many regard any
frequent idiom as a cliché, and a phrase regarded as a cliché in one context
may be seen simply as an effective expression in another. Examples drawn from
data about actual usage support Hargraves' identification of true clichés.
They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions
for eliminating clichés where they serve no useful purpose.

Concise and lively, It's Been Said Before serves as a guide to the most
overused phrases in the English language -- and to phrases that are used
exactly as often as they should be.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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