TALK
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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TALK. 1. A way of talking or speaking, usually embracing what one talks about:
TEACHER TALK the usage of teachers in the classroom;
chalk and talk an informal term for teaching methods that do not use complex technology;
small talk trivial news and gossip. The term is informal in such forms as
country talk and
local talk, and pejorative in such forms as
nigger talk.
2. A
VARIETY or
DIALECT, especially if not taken too seriously or low in prestige:
Bungo Talk ‘country bumpkin’ speech in Jamaica;
Creole Talk of Trinidad and Tobago (title of a book, 1980). This sense has long been associated with English-based
PIDGINS and
CREOLES; the word has been adopted and adapted, usually in the written form
tok, in various names, such as
KAMTOK in Cameroon and
TOK PISIN in Papua New Guinea. It may also occur in such pidgin and creole usages as
tumantok (‘two-man talk’) a tête-à-tête.
3. Sound that approximates to
SPEECH, whether produced by an animal, an infant, or a machine:
BABY TALK. Compare
-ESE,
LINGO,
-SPEAK. See
AKU,
DOUBLE TALK,
FOREIGNER TALK,
RASTA TALK,
TECHNOBABBLE.
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Gycklaren och vanmakten: Studier i Lars Forsells "Kabaredramatik."
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
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Sjalvironi, sjalvbespegling och sjalvreflexion: Den Metafiktiva tendensen i Eyvind Johnsons dikting.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Lars Gyllensten in this regard. Johnson's relationship to Dickens is more thoroughly pursued than the influence of Hjalmar Bergman. Jansson should not imitate his European/American critics to the extent that he shuns things Scandinavian. Terms...
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Memoirs of a Dead Man
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review; 4/1/2008; ; 325 words
; Memoirs of a Dead Man By Hjalmar Bergman Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith Norvik Press, Norwich, England/Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania...
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; ...course through other examples of aging, from such Swedish classics as Sven Lidman's Huset med de gamla froknarna and Hjalmar Bergman's Farmor och Var Herre, through Thomas Mann's Tod in Venedig and Lotte in Weimar, through Doris Lessing and...
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Last genom kameralinsen: Studier i filmiserad svensk roman.(Review)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...scholars following in his footsteps. The main body of the book offers monographic studies of six authors focusing on Hjalmar Bergman's Farmor och Var Herre (Grandmother and Our Lord), Stig Dagerman's Brant barn (A Burnt Child), Gosta Gustaf...
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Swedish literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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