Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever - Kindle edition by Leslie Savan. Download it once and.
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Subjects Mass media and language -- United States. Mass media and culture -- United States. Language and culture -- United States. Intercultural communication -- United States. Popular culture -- United States. English language -- Rhetoric. United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. Summary "Lesley Savan dissects contemporary language to discover what our most popular idioms reveal about America today.
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers by Leslie Savan | leondumoulin.nl
She traces the paths that words and expressions travel from obscurity to ubiquity. She describes how "real people" create slang and colorful phrases I don't think so; Bring it on! Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries and idiosyncrasies of language.
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What's black, then white, and said all over? Don't even think about telling me "I don't think so": The great American yesss! Populist pop and the regular guy Ch. The community of commitment-centered words Ch. Digital talk in the Unit States of America Epilogue: Notes Previously published in hardback by Knopf, as 'Slam dunks and no-brainers: View online Borrow Buy Freely available Show 0 more links Set up My libraries How do I set up "My libraries"?
This single location in All: Open to the public Book English Show 0 more libraries You could also say I do that pop eats slang for breakfast.
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Extremely popular speech and snappy phrases run throughout history. During the early nineteenth century, for instance, London was gaga over What a shocking bad hat! But catchphrases play a different role in our lives today than they have in the past, and that is largely because of the extraordinarily rapid growth of various media, especially over the last 50 years.
Pre-packaged, pre-tested mass words, especially if they sound spontaneous and robustly individualistic, are useful time-saving devices.
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Or, to put that in pop: These phrases are our go-to guys. Where do pop words and phrases come from? You write about the influence of black American vernacular language, for instance. The source of a particular buzzphrase may be prom queen or drag queen, boardroom or locker room, but as often as not the source is black.
But the black influence on American speech goes beyond individual words. As an often playful, ironic alternative to the standard tongue, black slang has prefigured pop language in much the same way that black music has prefigured, and has often become, pop music. It may seem twisted, given American history, but today, the language of an excluded people is repeated by the non-excluded in order to automatically sound more included.
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When are we most likely to employ pop language? Instead of thinking, we grab the nearest item from the arsenal of peevish put-downs: Loaded with killer inflections, these licensed weapon words chop down any and all assaults on the sensitive modern ego. What gives these words their clout is that we can sense a crowd, a crowd of millions, standing behind them. We hear too much information, your worst nightmare , or duh , and we immediately sense the power structure of the moment.
Pop language has even entered the arena of war. But Bandar was afraid that the U.
Nothing, I think, better shows the persuasive power of pop: It can squelch dissent and corral consensus even in the face of war and the deaths of thousands. How can we manage the role that pop language plays in our daily communication without being overly self-conscious? There is no easy—that is, pop—answer. I hate to say it, but you have to listen to yourself and be aware. It is indeed a thin line between being aware and being overly self-conscious. But if you step back with a little detachment and a bit of humor, you can probably spot the telltale signs that you and the media you dwell in are becoming too hooked on pop: Do you sniff out a sales component in the language?
Do you ever get a sour taste in your mouth from your own ironic comebacks? Do you secretly hope your words are playing to a phantom crowd? From the Hardcover edition.
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Of course, for some people, understanding the fine points of pop speech is a no-brainer; for others, not so much. Inspired by Your Browsing History.