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

Nunberg, Geoffrey

 
9780618116027: The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr's Fresh Air

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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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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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9780618116034: Way We Talk Now Pa: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air

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ISBN 10:  0618116036 ISBN 13:  9780618116034
Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin, 2001
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