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Clichés We Live By
Clichés We Live By examines how clichés shape the way we speak, think, and understand the world. It follows the history of clichés from ancient times to today's digital and AI age, showing that they are more than just overused tropes. Using ideas from philosophy, language, rhetoric, and culture, the book explores why we use clichés, what they reveal about us, and how they appear in literature, popular culture, politics, and AI. It offers a fresh way to think about repetition, originality, authenticity, banality, and the power of familiar language in our era.
Talking in Clichés
Author: Stella Bullo
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2022-11-03
For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of language, have considered clichés as a hackneyed, tired, lazy, unthinking and uninspiring form of communication. Authored by two established scholars in the fields of Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Discourse Studies and Pragmatics, this cutting-edge book comprehensively explores the perception and use of clichés in language from these complementary perspectives. It draws data from a variety of both written and spoken sources, to re-interrogate and re-imagine the nature, role and usage of clichés, identifying the innovative and creative ways in which the concepts are utilised in communication, interaction, and in self-presentation. Observing a rich, complex layering of usage, the authors deconstruct the many and varied ways in which clichés operate and are interdependently constructed; from the role they play in discourse in general, to their functions as argumentative strategies, as constructs of social cognition, as politeness strategies, and finally as markers of identity.
Cliches
Designed for both reference and entertainment, this dictionary of cliches covers the use and abuse of cliches in conversation, advertising, speeches and other situations. Arranged alphabetically, there are over 1200 cliches ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare, to Monty Python.