The State of the Language.

Ricks, Christopher and Leonard Michaels (eds.):

ISBN 10: 0520059069 / ISBN 13: 9780520059061

Editore: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press. 1990., 1990

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531 S. Tadelloses Exemplar, keine Eintragungen. Very fine copy, no inscriptions. --- CONTENTS: Prefatory Note Englishes DAVID DABYDEEN On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today SIDNEY GREENBAUM Whose English? MEDBH MCGUCKIAN On Hearing an Irish Poem Read in the Linenhall Library AMY TAN The Language of Discretion ROBERT ILSON British and American English: Ex Uno Plura? HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Talking Black NIKKI STILLER On Jewish Poetry in English ANTHONY HECHT Naming the Animals HUGH KENNER Further Thoughts: Little Words ARTHUR DELBRIDGE Australian English Now CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE The Inheritance RANDOLPH QUIRK Further Thoughts: Sound Barriers-Ten Years On RICHARD W. BAILEY English at Its Twilight The Body Politic DONALD DAVIE Articulacy. Hints from the Koran. MARINA WARNER Fighting Talk HERMIONE LEE Power: Women and the Word ROGER SCRUTON Ideologically Speaking SANDRA M. GILBERT Reflections on a (Feminist) Discourse of Discourse, or, Look, Ma, I'm Talking! M. F. K. FISHER Further Thoughts: The Correct Spelling of a Secret Word TED HUGHES Source JAN ZITA GROVER AIDS: Keywords WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Speaking in the Shadow of AIDS MICHAEL CALLEN AIDS: The Linguistic Battlefield Money SEYMOUR CHATMAN The Pajama Man: Idyll Without Words SUZANNE ROMAINE Pidgin English Advertising WENDY LESSER Thanks, I Suppose DAVID LODGE From the Novel Nice Work KATHLEEN ODEAN Bear Hugs and Bo Dereks on Wall Street Practices BRYAN A. GARNER The Missing Common-Law Words MARTHA MINOW The Case of Legal Language WILLIAM LUTZ The World of Doublespeak DAVID REID Public Eloquence FREDERIC RAPHAEL Further Thoughts: The Executives Take Over JOHN GROSS Editing and Its Discontents ALISON LURIE Notes on the Language of Poststructuralism MICHAEL ROGERS Computers and Language: An Optimistic View MICHAEL HEIM Infomania LEONARD MICHAELS I'm Having Trouble With My Relationship Art MARGARET A. DOODY Changing What We Sing ROBERT PINSKY The Refinery LORRIE GOLDENSOHN Poets' Letters: "The Mind alone, without corporeal friend" ROBERT BURCHFIELD Two Kinds of English? Jeffrey Archer and Anita Brookner LEON BOTSTEIN Language, Music, and Politics MICHAEL BAWTREE No Opera Please-We're British PAUL MULDOON The Key: A Prose Poem PAUL LENTI Boffo Goes International WALTER J. ONG Subway Graffiti and the Design of the Self JOHN HOLLANDER Now and Then Rectitudes ROY HARRIS Lars Porsena Revisited FIONA PITT-KETHLEY Censorship LIZ HASSE Violent Acts and Prurient Thoughts LISA NEMROW Dirty Words JOHN ALGEO It's a Myth, Innit? Politeness and the English Tag Question KEITH THOMAS Yours KINGSLEY AMIS Further Thoughts: They Can't Even Say It Properly Now CHRISTOPHER RICKS Word Making and Mistaking GEOFFREY NUNBERG What the Usage Panel Thinks J. ENOCH POWELL Further Thoughts: Grammar and Syntax ROBERT MACNEIL From Wordstruck ELIZABETH REES Hard Characters E. S. C. WEINER The Federation of English SYLVIA ADAMSON The What of the Language? Notes on Contributors Index. ISBN 0520059069 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Codice articolo 1246570

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Titolo: The State of the Language.

Casa editrice: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press. 1990.

Data di pubblicazione: 1990

Legatura: Gewebe

Condizione: Sehr gut

Condizione sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Riassunto:

"Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. "The language is in rude health," wrote another.

Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today.

Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate.

The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of "standard English" and correctness. The "bad language" that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized—or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized?

Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s.

The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Christopher Ricks is a critic and scholar of Milton, Keats, Tennyson, and T. S. Eliot, and teaches at Boston University.Leonard Michaels is a novelist and short story writer, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.