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Available
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Publication
[New York] : Basic Books, c1990.
Description
Why is unintelligibility so valued in academia? How can a joke that's funny in one culture be an insult in another? In this book, a linguist answers these and other questions, revealing the ways in which what we say and how we say it help us to accomplish our aims.
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Physical description
xii, 324 p.; 25 cm
ISBN
0465083587 / 9780465083589