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American Speech Patterns and Cultural Values: 'The Size of Texas'

American Speech Patterns and Cultural Values: 'The Size of Texas'

Dziwirek, Katarzyna

Hardcover

LinguisticsGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 3032245958
ISBN13: 9783032245953
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 162
Language: English

This book examines American cultural values and their expressions in everyday speech, particularly an American discourse strategy which the author coins as a metaphoric comparison'. The book argues that culture not only conditions perceptions of reality but also shapes language patterns. Through comparisons with Polish, it shows how idiosyncratic and culture-bound American English is and how, in view of its global popularity, adopting it as mode of communication can alter the lens through which we see the world in both clearly discernible and subtle ways. This book will be of interest to a broad audience including linguists, American Studies scholars, non-native speakers of English, and Slavists.

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