The Language Report: The Ultimate Record of What We're Saying and How We're Saying It

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Backed by the largest language research program in the world at Oxford University Press, this new book presents an up-to-the-minute snapshot of English language today: tracking the latest new words to have entered its usage; investigating old words revived by current events in, for example, the worlds of ...

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Overview

Infinitely browsable and completely up to date, The Language Report is a collection of topical and fascinating facts and observations on today's spoken and written English.
Backed by the largest language research program in the world at Oxford University Press, this new book presents an up-to-the-minute snapshot of English language today: tracking the latest new words to have entered its usage; investigating old words revived by current events in, for example, the worlds of politics and pop; and examining the most recent trends of language development.
This intriguing survey covers language issues reported by the media in recent times, including memorable quotations and sayings of the year; nicknames in the news; new venues for language, such as Internet chatrooms; and controversial developments in usage and grammar. It also analyzes English around the world, uncovering the latest words and phrases to enter our vocabulary; and explores what new words were hundreds of years ago, and how they've developed or disappeared. An ideal reference for all word lovers, this new book offers a fascinating tour of the English language today.

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Dent, a British editor and translator, here attempts the impossible-to offer in a very small book a snapshot of the whitewater that is contemporary English. Tracking the newest words picked up by OUP's continuous language-monitoring program (the largest in the world), she focuses on how speakers and writers of English, in trying to communicate the fast-shifting realities of the 21st century, generate new words and put older ones to fresh uses. Dent presents 25 important topics about the language changes today in short, factual chapters, most concluding with a list of illustrative words or phrases. These chapters treat sources of new terminology that stem from food, fashion, politics, TV, sports, computers, advertising, timely quotations, the various "flavors" of English (e.g., British, American, Canadian, Indian), and more. She also analyzes how the events of 9/11 "made the existing terminology for war and terrorism obsolete." But Dent doesn't stop there; she even discusses changing behavior patterns in English grammar and usage, such as the condensed usage necessitated by chat rooms and text messaging and the ubiquitous use of "fillers" such as innit and like or the established practice of "uptalking" (i.e., ending every statement with an invisible question mark and rising voice). The book is definitely British-focused, but there is more than enough here to interest any English-language buff. The lack of bibliographic apparatus, however, limits the book's reference use. A good, albeit optional, purchase for English language collections.-Paul D'Alessandro, Portland P.L., ME Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780198608608
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 11/28/2003
  • Pages: 151
  • Product dimensions: 7.10 (w) x 4.60 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 What Goes Around ... A Hundred Years of New Words 5
2 In the Spotlight: The Words in the News 11
3 The Language Innovators: How New Words Come About 16
4 WAN 2 TLK TXT? 23
5 Words on the Catwalk 26
6 Plain Cyberspeaking 28
7 Fighting Talk: The Language of Battle 33
8 Talking on Message: The New Political Lexicon 38
9 Riding the Soundwaves 42
10 The Language Traders: Business Speak 47
11 The Word on the Pitch: Sporting Language 51
12 Quotes of the Century 55
13 Slanguage on the Streets: The New Urban Slang 74
14 Chewing the Linguistic Scenery: Idioms 79
15 Slogans are Forever: the Best of Advertising 84
16 I'm a Celebrity, Get me in the Dictionary 90
17 Dinky Dirts and Tony Blairs: Rhyming Slang in the 2000s 17
18 Free Comment: The Art of the Headline 99
19 Sticks and Stones 104
20 Apostrophe Catastrophes: New Trends in Grammar and Usage 110
21 Crossing Continents: US English 21
22 Where Global Meets Local: World English 122
23 Sound and Fury: The Changing Pronunciation of British English 131
24 The Sound of American English 136
25 Fictional Realities: The Language of TV 140
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