Changes in attitudes toward English usage
Author | : Raymond D. Crisp |
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Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Raymond D. Crisp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1986 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Raymond Dwight Crisp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Edward Finegan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1980-04 |
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ISBN | : 9780807725351 |
Author | : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198808208 |
This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.
Author | : Bryan A. Garner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1113 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0190491485 |
The authority on grammar, usage, and style.
Author | : Dan Clayton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1108402143 |
Essential study guides for the future linguist. Attitudes to Language is an introduction to the facts and fallacies behind our beliefs about 'good English'. It is suitable for advanced level students and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge English Corpus, it looks at contemporary attitudes to language, the role of technology, language variation - such as accents and dialects - and frameworks for analysing how people use language to discuss language. Using activities to explain analysis methods, this book guides students through modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.
Author | : Ben Braber |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2020-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785276352 |
This book reviews changes in attitudes to immigrants in Britain and the language that was used to put these feelings into words between 1841 and 1921. Using a historical and linguistic method for an analysis of so far for this purpose relatively unused primary sources, it offers novel findings. It has found that changes in the meaning and use of the word alien in Britain coincided during the period between 1841 and 1921 with the expression of changing attitudes to immigrants in this country and the modification of the British variant of the English language. When people in Britain in these years used the term ‘an alien’, they meant most likely a foreigner, stranger, refugee or immigrant. In 1841 an alien denoted a foreigner or a stranger, notably a person residing or working in a country who did not have the nationality or citizenship of that country. However, by 1921 an alien mainly signified an immigrant in Britain – a term which, as this book shows, had in the course of the years since 1841 acquired very negative connotations.
Author | : Thomas John Hagerty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Edward J. Finegan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Bryan Garner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1007 |
Release | : 2009-07-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019987462X |
Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, GMAU authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. An exciting new feature of this third edition is Garner's Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. GMAU is the first usage guide ever to incorporate such a language-change index. The judgments are based both on Garner's own original research in linguistic corpora and on his analysis of hundreds of earlier studies. Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved. Bryan A. Garner is a writer, grammarian, lexicographer, teacher, and lawyer. He has written professionally about English usage for more than 28 years, and his work has achieved widespread renown. David Foster Wallace proclaimed that Bryan Garner is a genius and William Safire called the book excellent. In fact, due to the strength of his work on GMAU, Garner was the grammarian asked to write the grammar-and-usage chapter for the venerable Chicago Manual of Style. His advice on language matters is second to none.