| Verfasst von: | Yagoda, Ben [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Gobsmacked! |
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| Titelzusatz: | the British invasion of American English |
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| Verf.angabe: | Ben Yagoda |
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| Verlagsort: | Princeton ; Oxford |
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| Verlag: | Princeton University Press |
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| E-Jahr: | 2024 |
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| Jahr: | [2024] |
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| Umfang: | 274 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Diagramme |
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| Fussnoten: | Includes index |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-691-26229-1 |
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| Abstract: | "By the author of the blog Not One-Off Britishisms (NOOB), an account of when, how, and why various British terms and phrases have become part of contemporary American English. Critics and lexicographers have long noted the many differences between British and American English, and British writers and critics have complained about the invasion of Americanisms since at least the 1700s. More recently, however, a large number of words and phrases once thought to be strictly British English have worked their way into mainstream American writing and speech. Since 2011, Ben Yagoda has maintained a blog, Not One-Off Britishisms, in which he tracks, defines, and discusses British terms and phrases that have entered the American lexicon. In this short, entertaining book he collects his findings, charts the changes, and explores why certain UK expressions have taken hold in the US, sometimes even when a serviceable American equivalent exists. Chapters cover historical NOOBs, military slang, the top 40 NOOBs, insults, sport, food and drink, and faux NOOBs, along with notes on grammar, syntax, and pronunciation. See draft MS in the DAM"-- |
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| | A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms-for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America-from French fries to Awesome, man!-are destroying the English language. But what about the influence going the other way? Britishisms have been making their way into the American lexicon for more than 150 years, but the process has accelerated since the turn of the twenty-first century. From acclaimed writer and language commentator Ben Yagoda, Gobsmacked! is a witty, entertaining, and enlightening account of how and why scores of British words and phrases-such as one-off, go missing, curate, early days, kerfuffle, easy peasy, and cheeky-have been enthusiastically taken up by Yanks.After tracing Britishisms that entered the American vocabulary in the nineteenth century and during the world wars, Gobsmacked! discusses the most-used British terms in America today. It features chapters on the American embrace of British insults and curses, sports terms, and words about food and drinks. The book also explores the American adoption of British spellings, pronunciations, and grammar, and cases where Americans have misconstrued British expressions (for example, changing cant be arsed to cant be asked) or adopted faux-British usages, like pronouncing divisive as divissive. Finally, the book offers some guidance on just how many Britishisms an American can safely adopt without coming off like an arse.Rigorously researched and documented but written in a light, conversational style, this is a book that general readers and language obsessives will love. Its revealing account of a surprising and underrecognized language revolution might even leave them, well, gobsmacked |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303639313236323239317C7C434F50.jpg?sq=2 |
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| | Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780691262291.pdf |
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| Schlagwörter: | (s)Englisch / (s)Amerikanisches Englisch |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Yagoda, Ben, 1954 - : Gobsmacked!. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (278 Seiten) |
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| RVK-Notation: | HF 671 |
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| Sach-SW: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative |
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| | HISTORY / Social History |
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| | Amerikanisches Englisch |
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| | American English |
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| | Historical & comparative linguistics |
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| | Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft |
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| | LAN009010 |
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| | LAN029000 |
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| | Language: history & general works |
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| | Lexicography |
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| | Lexikographie |
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| | Social & cultural history |
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| | Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte |
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| | Sprache: Geschichte und Allgemeines |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1888064854 |
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