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Talk Is Cheap [electronic resource] : Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haiman, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irony.
- Language and languages.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- Pragmatics.
- Semantics.
- Local Subjects:
- Irony.
- Language and languages.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- Pragmatics.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study argues that ""unplain speaking"" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. The author argues that ""cheap talk"" allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable, while describing how what we are saying becomes separate from how we say it.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: The Cheapness of Talk; 1 Sarcasm and the Postmodern Sensibility; 2 Sarcasm and Its Neighbors; 3 The Metamessage ""I Don't Mean This""; 4 Alienation and the Divided Self; 5 Reflexives as Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self; 6 Un-Plain Speaking; 7 The Thing in Itself; 8 Zen Semantics; 9 Nonlinguistic Ritualization; 10 Ritualization in Language; 11 Metalinguistic Ritualization; 12 Reification and Innateness; Postscript; Appendix: Questionnaire for Eliciting Sarcasm; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772257-1
- 1-280-52954-7
- 0-19-535406-0
- 1-4294-0446-9
- OCLC:
- 476012496
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