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The Language Wars: A History of Proper English de Henry Hitchings

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

Autor Henry Hitchings
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 2012

"Exemplary...Hitchings has created a fascinating, wholly readable, and gratifyingly informative book."---"Financial Times "(London)
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter; often they've had more to do with morality, politics, and the values of the age than with language itself. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, "The Language Wars" is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary state of the English language, its contested history, and its future.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250013941
ISBN-10: 1250013941
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 140 x 209 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Picador USA

Descriere

The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values--morality, politics, and class. "The Language Wars" examines the present state of the conflict, its history, and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present.

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Henry Hitchings

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'[Hitchings] writes beautiful prose, witty and succinct. His book is full of complex ideas expressed with crystal clarity ... The range of his knowledge and curiosity is remarkable ... Every paragraph contains a fascinating detail about the English language ... I recommend that you rush out to immediately buy it, or to buy it immediately, whichever you prefer.'
'This richly detailed and often delightfully combative book is a historical guide to the sometimes splenetic battles that have been fought over [English] down the centuries . . . a pleasure to read.'
'Crisply written, amusing, informative and thought-provoking. Anyone interested in the English language and its history should read it.'
'Hitchings' exemplary researches and disinterested, perceptive and often witty explications, make it clear that one cannot glibly dismiss these struggles over what makes English "proper" ... Hitchings has created a fascinating, wholly readable and gratifyingly informative book.'
The Language Wars asks us to think beyond tradition, habit and deference, and to consider what we want from our words. It is a very intelligent and polite call to arms, but a call to arms nonetheless
'The Language Wars takes the reader on a Cook's tour of complaints about English past and present ...'
'It is a breath of fresh air (if that is the right cliché) to wander the byways of language without always being nudged to laugh at prescriptivists' foolish nostrums.'
'A superb survey'
'An extraordinary amount of reading has clearly gone in to the Language Wars'
'Erudite but eminently readable'
'...if you like the English language as it develops and changes - this is a book you'll love. Hitchings unpicks arguments with terrific flair....He makes us think about language - what it is, what it does, where's been. There's a great bit on the modern use of "like". It's like, wow'
'Playful and learned'
'Richly detailed, delightfully combative...such a pleasure to read'