Jargon : its uses and abuses
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Jargon : its uses and abuses
（The language library）
Blackwell, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
Part essay, part discursive dictionary, this is a sharp and funny account of gobbledegook we find everywhere in our culture - in holiday brochures, menus, sports commentaries, not to mention academia. Jargon, Walter Nash shows, is a multi-coloured swap shop: financiers talk like field marshalls, educationists like stockbrokers, politicians like athletes, fast food vendors like romantic novelists. He explores the varieties of language coloured by shop-talk, vogue words, "buzz words", slang, hackneyed phraseology and hard pressed metaphors; the origins of jargon in literary, journalistic, commercial and technical settings; and changes in usage and attitudes to usage over time. He also incorporates a selective and sometimes satirical 'devil's dictionary of jargon today.
目次
Preface.Part I:1. Introduction.2. A Jargoning Taxonomy.3. Elements of Jargon.4. Building the Repertoire.5. Jargons of Production.6. "Emerging Blankness." 7. Jargon and Literary Creativity.8. Movers and Shakers. Notes. Part II:Postscriptual and Biographical Note.Index.
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