Walter Redfern: 2 books
Le Mort et le vif
Clichés/néologismes
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Ce livre est une édition française repensée et mise à jour de The Dead and the Quick: Cliches and Neologisms in the Written, Spoken and Visual Cultures of Britain, the United States and France (1989, 2e édition 2010).
Walter Redfern considère le langage comme alternativement réactionnaire et...
All Puns Intended
The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The 19th century in France spawned numerous 'fous litteraires, one of them being Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919). An individualist among individualists, he dismantled the existing French tongue, reshaping it to suit his own grandiose purposes, which were to explain afresh the development of...