The Language Report - Hardcover

Dent, Susie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198608608 ISBN 13: 9780198608608

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Infinitely browsable and completely up to date, The Language Report is a collection of topical and fascinating facts and observations on today's spoken and written English.
Backed by the largest language research program in the world at Oxford University Press, this new book presents an up-to-the-minute snapshot of English language today: tracking the latest new words to have entered its usage; investigating old words revived by current events in, for example, the worlds of politics and pop; and examining the most recent trends of language development.
This intriguing survey covers language issues reported by the media in recent times, including memorable quotations and sayings of the year; nicknames in the news; new venues for language, such as Internet chatrooms; and controversial developments in usage and grammar. It also analyzes English around the world, uncovering the latest words and phrases to enter our vocabulary; and explores what new words were hundreds of years ago, and how they've developed or disappeared. An ideal reference for all word lovers, this new book offers a fascinating tour of the English language today.

About this title

About the Author:

Susie Dent was Editorial Director at Oxford University Press for several years before leaving to become an independent editor and translator. She appears regularly on the TV word game Countdown.

Review:

"Dent, a British editor and translator, here attempts the impossible--to offer in a very small book a snapshot of the whitewater that is contemporary English. Tracking the newest words picked up by OUP's continuous language monitoring program (the largest in the world), she focuses on how speakers and writers of English...generate new words and put older ones to fresh uses."--Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198608608
• ISBN 13: 9780198608608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160