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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54001475 Title: Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in confrontational times Author: Geoffrey Nunberg Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2004. ISBN/ISSN: 1586482343 9781586482343 1586483455 9781586483456 OCLC:54001475

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Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in confrontational times

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Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in confrontational times

Author:	Geoffrey Nunberg
Publisher:	New York : PublicAffairs, ©2004.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Presents a collection of essays that describe the values and attitudes of Americans that are reflected through the use of language.
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ISBN:	1586482343 9781586482343 1586483455 9781586483456
OCLC Number:	54001475
Description:	xvii, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	Culture at Large -- Plastics! -- Keeping Ahead of the Joneses -- Caucasian Talk Circles -- Near Myths -- Lamenting Some Enforced Chastity -- Stolen Words -- Beating Their Brows -- Prurient Interests -- War Drums -- When Words Fail -- A Name Too Far -- Beleaguered Infidel -- It All Started with Robespierre -- It May Be Banal but It's Bad News -- Going Nucular -- Appease Porridge Hot -- The Second Casualty -- Naming of Foreign Parts -- The Syntax of Resistance -- A Couple of Words for Nothing Left to Lose -- The Gallic Subject -- Begin the Regime -- We'll Always Have Kirkuk -- Politics as Usual -- So Sorry -- Some of My Best Friends -- Interested Parties -- Me, Too, Too -- Slippery Slopes -- If It's Orwellian, It's Probably Not -- Meetings of the Minds -- Lattes, Limousines, and Libs -- Where the Left Commences -- A Fascist in Every Garage -- Class Dismissed -- Special Effects -- Symbols -- A Date to Remember -- Our Nation's Favorite Song -- The Last Refuge of Scoundrels and Other People -- Pledge Break -- Media Words -- Rush Limbaugh's Plurals -- The Politics of Polysyndeton -- The Speech That Turns Mere Presidents Into Talk Show Hosts -- I Seeing the News Today, Oh Boy -- Roil Pain -- Business Cycles -- For Love or Money -- The Triumph of Capitalism -- A Good Old-Gentlemanly Vice -- The Vision Thing -- Initiating Mission-Critical Jargon Reduction -- Farewell to the Alero -- 100 Percent Solutions -- Tech Talk -- As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation -- I Have Seen the Future, and It Blogs -- Prefixed Out.
Responsibility:	Geoffrey Nunberg.

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The "Fresh Air" commentator and New York Times contributor artfully shows how our use of language reveals the true mindset of contemporary America Read more...

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"In his "feisty" and "humorous" essays, Geoffrey Nunberg "cracks the codes embedded in many familiar terms used in media, business, technology and politics to reveal unexpected insights about our fractious society". Publishers Weekly" Read more...

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