Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies by Diana Senechal

Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies

Diana Senechal

196 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This book takes up some of the "memes" of everyday speech: not Internet memes, but words and phrases that get passed on without much questioning. In a culture of “takeaways” and buzzwords, it requires study and cunning to keep language alive.In Mi...

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