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Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like ... Whatever
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Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like ... Whatever
Author:
Leslie Savan
Language:
English
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Paperback
Publication Date:
10/10/2006 0:00
ISBN:
0375702423
Pages:
340
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Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like ... Whatever
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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.
The book, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like ... Whatever [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780375702426 in Paperback by Savan, Leslie may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
The book, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like ... Whatever [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780375702426 in Paperback by Savan, Leslie may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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