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Biography
redirect|Catch phraseexpand further|date=February 2012Citation style|date=November 2011wiktionary|catchphraseA catchphrase (or catch-phrase ) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through a variety of mass media (such as literature and publishing, motion pictures, television and radio), as well as word of mouth. Some become the de facto "trademark" or "signature" of the person or character with whom they originated, and can be instrumental in the typecasting (beneficially or otherwise) of a particular actor.
According to Richard Harris, a psychology professor at Kansas State University who studied why people like to cite films in social situations, using film quotes in everyday conversation is similar to telling a joke and a way to form solidarity with others. "People are doing it to feel good about themselves, to make others laugh, to make themselves laugh", he said. He found that all of the participants in his study had used film quotes in conversation at one point or another. "They overwhelmingly cited comedies, followed distantly by dramas and action adventure flicks." Horror films, musicals and children's films were hardly ever cited.cite news| first=A | last=Pawlowski|title=You talkin' to me? Film quotes stir passion|publisher= CNN |date=March 9, 2009|accessdate=January 21, 2010|url= http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/09/film.quotes/index.html
See also
List of catchphrases
List of political catchphrases
Catchphrase (UK game show)| Catchphrase (UK game show)
cite book | last=Turner | first=Chris |authorlink = Chris Turner (author)| title= Planet Simpson|Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation | year=2004 |publisher= Random House|Random House Canada |location=Toronto| isbn=0-679-31318-4
Further reading
Eric Partridge|Partridge, Eric (1894–1979) ed. Beale. http://books.google.com/books? id=Nm3jbg0JalMC& printsec=frontcover& dq=eric+partridge& hl=en& ei=GZFdTtfMOIjViAK_8d2zBQ& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=3& ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage& q& f=false A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, American and British, from the sixteenth century to the present day (enlarged trade paperback edition) Lanham, Maryland: Scarborough House, 1992. ISBN 0-8128-8536-8. E-book ISBN 0-203-37995-0
