You Know what I Mean?

by Ruth Wajnryb

Book Overview

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... If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation, rushing to a dictionary - with its definitions frozen in time - wouldn't help much. Who's using a word and to whom,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521703743
• ISBN13: 9780521703741
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"