Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English - Brossura

Partridge, Eric

 
9780393317091: Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0393317099 ISBN 13: 9780393317091
Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Sinossi

An entertaining and useful reference updated for the 1990s is designed to assist the reader in avoiding misuses of the English language when trying to write or speak clearly and directly. Reprint.

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Product Description

Usage and Abusage is a classic that has stood up well to the passage of time. But language does evolve over the years, and new problems (such as the use of "hopefully") and current topics (such as "sexism") have engendered a whole new vocabulary, which cannot be omitted from any book discussing the English of the 1990s. In this new edition, Janet Whitcut has revised Partridge's popular reference book to reflect the language of well-informed writers, readers, and speakers today. In addition, she has added a section to the book entitled Vogue Words, which includes words such as "crash" "symbiotic, " and "viable" that have acquired a power and an influence beyond those that they originally possessed. Usage and Abusage wittily attacks linguistic abusage of all kinds and offers constructive advice on the proper use of English.

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Editore
W W Norton & Co Inc
Data di pubblicazione
1997
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0393317099
ISBN 13 
9780393317091
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
400
Redattore
Whitcut Janet
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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