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Publisher: Firebelle Productions
ISBN: 0965151662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Kathryn Petras
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101624973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It’s also very funny. A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled clichés, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres. Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.

Author: Barbara Wallraff
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156011181
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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By the author of "Atlantic Monthly's" highly popular column "Word Court" comes an engaging grammar guide for lovers of language, a national bestseller now in paperback.

Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1102

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Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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Author: Lawrence M. Solan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226767876
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Why do so many people voluntarily consent to searches by have the police search their person or vehicle when they know that they are carrying contraband or evidence of illegal activity? Does everyone understand the Miranda warning? How well can people recognize a voice on tape? Can linguistic experts identify who wrote an anonymous threatening letter? Speaking of Crime answers these questions and examines the complex role of language within our criminal justice system. Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma compile numerous cases, ranging from the Lindbergh kidnapping to the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton to the JonBenét Ramsey case, that provide real-life examples of how language functions in arrests, investigations, interrogations, confessions, and trials. In a clear and accessible style, Solan and Tiersma show how recent advances in the study of language can aid in understanding how legal problems arise and how they might be solved. With compelling discussions current issues and controversies, this book is a provocative state-of-the-art survey that will be of enormous value to legal scholars and professionals throughout the criminal justice system.

Author: Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1076

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Author: Janet Cotterill
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The Language of Sexual Crime considers: the law and language of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse; the detection of sexually-motivated crime through linguistic analysis; police interview techniques used with victims and perpetrators; examination and cross-examination of victims and perpetrators at trial; judicial reports and public inquiries involving sexual abuse or assault cases; the reporting of rape or sexual assault cases in the media.

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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1086

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Author: Robert Gordon Latham
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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