Micaels leonard (2 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Collectible; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. 809 pages. Tight, clean and crisp, with only a faint hint of shelf wear to dustjacket with mild sunning to spine, otherwise Fine. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-libtaty. An excellent copy protected in a new Mylar cover.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Dust jacket price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 600 pages clean and tight. WHAT ARE WE DOING with words today? In original short essays and poems, many of the gifted writers of our day -novelists, linguists, literary critics, philosophers, politicians, people in law, business, and the arts -offer informed and lively responses to this question. They discuss topics as different as liturgical English and the language of popular music; the language of legal interpretation and the play talk of children; the use of dialects; the language of philosophy, women, and computers; and the state of letter writing. For the authors in this book, English is not only crucial to their work, but also a sensitive record of the way we think and feel about-indeed create-our world. Touching on much of contemporary life-art, religion, sex, science, politics, education, business -the essayists together embrace what is vital and distinctive in our language as we enter the 1980s. Size: 8vo.…