Isbn: 9780571141821 - State of the Language: 1990 Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. State of the Language 1990 This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9780571141821.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9780571141821.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:057114182X.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large octavo, 531 pages, index. Pages a little browned with age. Former owner's signature (Paul Beale former editor of Partridge's Dictionary of Slang etc) on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 531 pages. Dj worn. Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing, wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. The language is in rude health, wrote another.Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems tha t engage our language today.Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood . In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate.The nervous negot iations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of standard English and correctness. The bad la nguage that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been polit icized--or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been r ecognized?Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various lig ht. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as de tail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s.The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 531 pages. tidy copySprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing, wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. The language is in rude health, wrote another.Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems tha t engage our language today.Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood . In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate.The nervous negot iations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of standard English and correctness. The bad la nguage that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been polit icized--or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been r ecognized?Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various lig ht. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as de tail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s.The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco.…

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