The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left - Rilegato

Crystal, David

 
9780199207640: The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left
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ISBN 10: 019920764X ISBN 13: 9780199207640
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2006

Sinossi

Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate.

With a lively, humorous, and accessible approach, Crystal charts the battles past and present, illustrating the characters and attitudes involved from a wide range of written sources. He combines a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of particular themes such as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation. And he looks ahead to the future in the context of recent education policy shifts.

A positive and compelling case is made for variation in usage of English based on appropriateness of situation, arguing that 'zero tolerance' in relation to language is a profoundly flawed approach. Crystal offers an original and authoritative counter-argument to the prescriptivist agenda that has been expounded in many accounts of English usage over the years.

The Fight for English is the book that everyone concerned with English usage has been eagerly awaiting.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Crystal is the foremost writer and lecturer on the English language, with a world-wide reputation and over 100 books to his name. He is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, and has been awarded an OBE for services to the English Language.



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Editore
OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
019920764X
ISBN 13 
9780199207640
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
256
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9780199229697: The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left

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ISBN 10:  0199229694 ISBN 13:  9780199229697
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2007
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