The Fight for English
How language pundits ate, shot, and left
Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate.With a lively, humorous, and accessible approach, Crystal charts the battles past and present, illustrating the characters and attitudes involved from a wide range of written sources. He combines a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of particular themes such as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation. And he looks ahead to t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-158746-7
- EAN: 9780191587467
- Produktnummer: 13905252
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'158 KB
Über den Autor
David Crystal is the foremost writer and lecturer on the English language, with a world-wide reputation and over 100 books to his name. He is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, and has been awarded an OBE for services to the English Language.
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