The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr's Fresh Air - Rilegato

Nunberg, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 0618116028 ISBN 13: 9780618116027

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Riassunto

An assortment of NPR broadcasts and articles by a noted linguist explores the mysteries of modern-day culture as revealed by the words, phrases, metaphors, and grammar used.

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Recensione:

"Nunberg offers homages and brickbats to the popular culture, especially as it is spoken and written." Kirkus Reviews

"Nunberg . . . discusses usage and its abuses in brief, delightful essays." Minneapolis Star-Tribune

[A] lighthearted but pithy analysis of the changing ways Americans talk and write." Columbus Dispatch

"Never fails to reveal...history embedded in language...his acuity and fixation on funny pop-phenomena keep the book fresh." Publishers Weekly

"Humorous commentaries about language in the United States." Library Journal

"Most occasional pieces lose their freshness in hard covers, but Geoffrey Nunberg's commentaries on language...are a happy exception." Boston Globe

"Contains [Nunberg's] ruminations on the strange twists and turns of English as spoken in America." Columbus Dispatch

"He brings a refreshing blunt iconoclasm to the eternal debate over proper English." Columbus Dispatch

"In a chatty, accessible style, he takes American catchwords and colloquialisms and turns them into signifiers of shared experience." Philadelphia City Paper

L'autore:

Geoffrey Nunberg is a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and a consulting professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. He is also chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He has published many articles in the scholarly and popular press and made numerous radio broadcasts on language and linguistics, the cultural implications of digital technologies, and language policy issues. For this work, he was given the 2001 Language, Linguistics, and the Public Interest Award by the Linguistic Society of America.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618116028
• ISBN 13: 9780618116027
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 243