Leslie Savan

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we're all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as "no-brainer”s) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a "slam dunk”). Real people create these catchy phrases, but once media, politics, and businesses broadcast them, they burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and powerful. Witty, fun, and full of thought-provoking stories about the origins of popular expressions, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries of language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 135mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780375702426
• ISBN-10: 0375702423
• Artikelnr.: 22392537

Autorenporträt

Leslie Savan

Inhaltsangabe

PROLOGUE
Are We Having Fun Yet?
CHAPTER 1
Here’s the Deal
CHAPTER 2
Pop Talk Is History
CHAPTER 3
What’s Black, Then White, and Said All Over?
CHAPTER 4
Don’t Even Think About Telling Me “I Don’t Think So”: The Media, Meanness,
and Me
CHAPTER 5
The Great American Yesss!
CHAPTER 6
Populist Pop and the Regular Guy
CHAPTER 7
The Community of Commitment-Centered Words
CHAPTER 8
Digital Talk in the Unit States of America
EPILOGUE
It’s Like, You Know, the End
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Permissions Acknowledgments