Kate Burridge
Autor(a) de Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language
About the Author
Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University.
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Obras por Kate Burridge
Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language (2002) 141 exemplares
Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language (2004) 92 exemplares
Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,… (2003) — Editor — 4 exemplares
Syntactic change in Germanic : aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch (1993) 2 exemplares
Forbidden Words 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Historical linguistics 1993 : selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los… (1995) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Historical linguistics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,… (1998) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Historical linguistics, 1997 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,… (1998) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Burridge, Kate
- Data de nascimento
- 1957-12-27
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Australia
- Educação
- University of Western Australia (undergraduate)
University of London (postgraduate) - Ocupações
- linguist
professor - Organizações
- Monash University
La Trobe University
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 309
- Popularidade
- #76,232
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 39
It was fascinating to learn how the meaning of a word can change over time, as well as the pronunciation. The book includes the origin of particular words and phrases and even included the word I hate most at the moment, irregardless.
I enjoyed reading the section on blended words such as cocacolonization and affluenza. I was also introduced to the official/non-official term the pullet surprise (misheard Pulitzer Prize) which many of us would recognise as the outcome when song lyrics are misheard. My favourite section of the book included the long forgotten phrases describing culinary activities such as: frushing a chicken and unlacing a rabbit.
The most disturbing find was that there is an increasing number of Australians using the expression 'Collingwood is versing Essendon' instead of versus. Younger generations when hearing the use of the word versus are mistaking it for verses, and using it accordingly - although incorrectly. I sincerely hope this doesn't take off, although since finishing this book I have heard this pronunciation at least twice, ugh!
Gift of the Gob takes a look at the language of the past and where the English language is taking us in the future, both here and abroad. My only criticism is that the book is screaming out for an Index or Table of Contents at the beginning. I was continually flicking through the book to find this or that and a Table of Contents would have been very handy.
I thoroughly recommend this to anyone with a love of words or interested in the quirky words, phrases, spellings, pronunciations and origins of our English language. This book would be perfect on any coffee table, and is fantastic to dip into from time to time but is not too much to read in one hit. Enjoy.… (mais)