LANGUAGE GAFFES. LINGUISTIC, DISCURSIVE AND COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF ‘LANGUAGE BLOOPERS’
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No matter if highly educated or barely literate, a native speaker or a foreign language learner, everyone has, at one point or another, produced a language gaffe. Some of those gaffes pass unnoticed, others are shrugged off as unimportant. Still others may stay to haunt one for years – especially if one is a politician, a celebrity, a TV personality, a lecturer…
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Ahthor: Nelly Tincheva
No matter if highly educated or barely literate, a native speaker or a foreign language learner, everyone has, at one point or another, produced a language gaffe. Some of those gaffes pass unnoticed, others are shrugged off as unimportant. Still others may stay to haunt one for years – especially if one is a politician, a celebrity, a TV personality, a lecturer…
This book debates different ways of analyzing language gaffes. It offers a contrastive analysis of the language gaffes produced by US President Donald Trump and US President George W. Bush.
ISBN 978-954-796-080-0
Published: 2019
Pages: 184
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