UNLOCKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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Language: English
Published by Hill and Wang, 1992
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- Title
- UNLOCKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- Author
- Burchfield, R
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374523398
- ISBN 13
- 9780374523398
"At what historical point did American English become different from British English? Burchfield tackles these and other questions in scholarly essays sure to intrigue anyone who loves words and language." - Publishers Weekly
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"Phooey," "airport" and "pacifism" are among the words that entered the English language between 1900 and 1930; more recent coinages include "hi-fi," "baby boom" and "yuppie." Language, we are shown here, is a fast-changing medium, and not only in the area of vocabulary: lexicography is a battlefield where different social classes, schools of grammar, philosophies and far-flung speakers vie to impose their viewpoints. In an elegant, involving introduction to some of the thorniest issues in modern language use and abuse, Burchfield, who has served as chief editor of the Oxford English Dictonary , ponders the "fast speech rules" that govern daily conversation and bemoans the "devastating loss of religious mystery" in modernized versions of sacred texts. How should lexicographers deal with derogatory racial, ethnic and religious terms? At what historical point did American English become different from British English? Burchfield tackles these and other questions in scholarly essays sure to intrigue anyone who loves words and language.
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Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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