Susanna Janssen 
Wordstruck! [EPUB ebook] 
The Fun and Fascination of Language

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Do languages and cultures fascinate you? Do you love words?

Welcome to Susanna Janssen’s wondrous world of words.

Wordstruck! will entertain you with a wealth of humorous and insightful reflections on language and cultures. Dive in anywhere and delve into everything from cockney slang to terms of endearment around the world; from the genius of Shakespeare to foreign translations gone riotously bad; from why we say “hello” when answering the phone to why there are several hundred Arabic words in our language.

Discover fascinating word origins, fall in love with metaphor and malapropisms, learn how to spot liars through their words, uncover the secrets to building the brain like a muscle, and find out what really goes on behind foreign language classroom doors.

Have a love affair with the lexicon—Let Wordstruck! feed your brain, warm your heart, and tickle your funny bone.

Wordstruck! is the 2017 winner of three national awards including First place in the Humor category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

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Contents

 

CHAPTER ONE

Life and Language in the USA

The Tower of Scrabble Babel

You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello

The US and “Them” View of the World

Minding the Metaphor, Part I

Minding the Metaphor, Part II

Let’s Play the Dictionary Game!

Pants on Fire

How Are You Fixed for Time and Money

 

CHAPTER TWO

Whence These Words

The Herd Mentality

Shakespeare: The Legacy in His Lines, Part I

Shakespeare: The Legacy in His Lines, Part II

On the Trail of Word Origins, Part I

On the Trail of Word Origins, Part II

On the Trail of Word Origins, Part III

The Familiarity of Foreign

The Scholar’s Ink and the Martyr’s Blood

 

CHAPTER THREE

Grammar Grievances, Malaprop Muddles, and Pronunciation Pickles

Inconstant Consonant and Sudden Vowel Movements

Grammurder in the First Degree

Grammurder in the Second Degree

The Law of Schwa

The Abdominal Snowman on the Cal-Can Highway

Into the Prepositional Fray

 

CHAPTER FOUR

Windows on the World

It’s All Bubble and Squeak to Me

Lost (but Not Forgotten) in Translation

We Don’t Have a Word for It, Part I

We Don’t Have a Word for It, Part II

News from the World of Words

Speaking of Tongues

Pigments of our Imagination

Between the Sword and the Wall

The Language Police

Rum and Revolution, Part I

Rum and Revolution, Part II

 

CHAPTER FIVE

The Wonders of the Bilingual Brain 

Riding the Silver Tsunami

The Best Brain Elixir

The Blooming Brain

The Tongue May Stumble, But the Brain Purrs

The Job Seeker’s Competitive Edge

 

CHAPTER SIX

A Life in Words

Make Love Not War

Don the Noose for Biscuits

All About Me, the Sequel

All About Me, Prequel I

All About Me, Prequel II

Ez Dakite Euskaraz Hitz Egiten Duzu?

The Cure by Feeding of Earworms

A Girl (Not) Named Sue

Behind Closed Classroom Doors, Part I

Behind Closed Classroom Doors, Part II

Behind Closed Classroom Doors, Part III

 

CHAPTER SEVEN

Marking Moments in the Year

High Notes on Highway 99

May Your Days Be Merry and Bright

Have a Feliz Navidad and a Diglot New Year

And the Word of the Year is…

“Reach Out” and “Open Your Kimono”: A Lexical Review of 2015

The Secret to Everything, Part I

The Secret to Everything, Part II

Around the World in Cupid’s Quiver

Mary and the Merry Month of May

The Yodeling Dutchman: A Father’s Day Tribute

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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 368 ● ISBN 9780998304830 ● Размер файла 3.0 MB ● издатель Susan Janssen ● опубликованный 2018 ● Издание 2 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 6475548 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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