Guide to Canadian English Usage: Reissue - Rilegato

Fee, Margery; McAlpine, Janice

 
9780195445930: Guide to Canadian English Usage: Reissue
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0195445937 ISBN 13: 9780195445930
Casa editrice: OUP Canada, 2011

Sinossi

The complexities of the English language can be daunting for even the most fluent speakers, and for Canadians this is doubly so with the mixture of British and American traditions. Almost anyone engaged in formal writing will sometimes need to consult a usage guide for advice, but Canadians have always been forced to choose between a British or an American source. With the Guide to Canadian English Usage, writers will have an authoritative reference based on Canadian sources that provides pithy direction on numerous details of the language.

From the indefinite article to zoology, alphabetically arranged entries clarify issues of word choice, punctuation, spelling, and abbreviation. Throughout it offers guidance on Canadianisms, confusibles, difficult expressions, First Nation names, foreign phrases, grammar, inclusive language, punctuation, spelling, and troublesome pronunciations. Each entry explains the problem at hand, outlines a range of prescriptions, and then either recommends a particular usage or reviews the alternatives from which the now-informed reader can choose. All entries feature a wide range of fascinating quotations from Canadian sources.

Newly reissued in an attractive hardcover edition, the Guide to Canadian English Usage is the essential reference for any writer, editor, or speaker of English in Canada.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Margery Fee is the former Director of the Strathy Language Unit at Queen's University. She currently teaches Canadian and post-colonial literature at the University of British Columbia.

Janice McAlpine is the former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit at Queen's University.

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Editore
OUP Canada
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0195445937
ISBN 13 
9780195445930
Rilegatura
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Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
676
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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780195426021: Guide to Canadian English Usage

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0195426029 ISBN 13:  9780195426021
Casa editrice: OUP Canada, 2007
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