You know what I mean? : words, contexts and communication / Ruth Wajnryb.
"Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes - but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words - like sardines in a tin, or milk in a bottle. After all, words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary aren't they? But dictionaries only take us so far ....
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Nuts and bolts
- Word behaviours
- Between the lines
- Political
- Inspired by books, films and media
- Gender
- Text-types
- Fields of discourse
- Word biographies
- World Englishes.