The language report
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The language report
Oxford University Press, 2003
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Know your kamikini from your kitten heel? Prefer your bling-bling to your biscuit? Listen to electroclash or foxcore? Live with a bleeding-edge screenager or a silver surfer suffering from wapathy? Or are you :-Q? 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. Using the resources of the world's largest language research programme at Oxford University Press, it 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 quotes and sayings of the year; nicknames in the news; new venues for language, such as the Internet chatroom; and controversial developments in usage and grammar.
It also analyses English around the world, finding out the latest words and phrases to enter the US or Australian English vocabulary for example; and looks at what the new words were 100 years ago, and how they've developed or disappeared.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- WHAT GOES AROUND ...: A HUNDRED YEARS OF NEW WORDS
- UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT: THE WORDS IN THE NEWS
- THE LANGUAGE INNOVATORS: HOW NEW WORDS COME ABOUT
- WNT 2 TLK TXT?
- LANGUAGE ON A PLATE: FOOD AND DRINK
- WORDS ON THE CATWALK: THE LANGUAGE OF FASHION
- PLAIN CYBERSPEAKING
- FIGHTING TALK: THE LANGUAGE OF BATTLE
- TALKING ON-MESSAGE: THE NEW POLITICAL LEXICON
- RIDING THE SOUNDWAVES: THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC
- COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE: THE VOCABULARY OF BUSINESS
- THE WORD ON THE PITCH: SPORTING LANGUAGE
- THE QUOTES OF THE CENTURY
- CHEWING THE LINGUISTIC SCENERY: IDIOMS
- SLOGANS ARE FOREVER: THE BEST OF 75 YEARS OF ADVERTISING
- DINKY DIRTS AND TONY BLAIRS: RHYMING SLANG IN THE 2000'S
- FREE COMMENT: THE ART OF THE HEADLINE
- STICKS AND STONES
- QUESTIONS OF ENGLISH
- WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORDS
- APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHES: NEW TRENDS IN GRAMMAR AND USAGE
- WHERE GLOBAL MEETS LOCAL: WORLD ENGLISH
- FICTIONAL REALITIES: THE LANGUAGE OF TV
- LINGUISTIC SIGNATURES: THE POWER OF THE CATCHPHRASE
- A WORD A YEAR: 1903-2003
- SOUND AND FURY: THE CHANGING PRONUNCIATION OF BRITISH ENGLISH
- CRUCIVERBALISM: THE LURE OF THE WORD GAME
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