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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.4612
- eisbn: 9782869064751
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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cliché stylistique stéréotype psychologie littérature de langue anglaise Humanities, Multidisciplinary Literature (General) LIT000000 DSSujets proches
Examples Exemplars Printing, Practical Typography People Man Humanity (Human beings) Human race Mankind Homo sapiens Humankind Humans World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettres Frenchmen (French people) Proof Use ofCiter ce document
Gillian Beer, « The Making of a Cliché: "No Man is an Island" », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4612
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Cliché is a printerly term, satisfyingly material. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary in the main text of its first, 1928, edition describes it only in those terms, as a French onomatopoeic word, a variant on cliquer — to click — "applied by die-sinkers to the striking of melted lead in order to obtain a proof or cast". The main text made no mention of the use of the word cliché which is familiar, cliché'd, now. Instead, it gives three examples, all of them to do with printing and woodcuts...