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Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish - Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences New edition
James A. Matisoff
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish - Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences New edition
James A. Matisoff
In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions-from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. A rarity among scholarly books, it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation.
160 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 1, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780804733939 |
Publishers | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Dimensions | 458 g |
Language | English |
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