Ricks Christopher, Michaels Leonard The State of the Language: New Observations, Objections, Angers, Bemusements, Hilarities, Perplexities, Revelations, Prognostications, and Warnin 9780520301269

Варианты приобретения

Цена: 5099.00р.
Кол-во:
Наличие: Поставка под заказ. Есть в наличии на складе поставщика.
Склад Америка: Есть
При оформлении заказа до: 2025-08-04
Ориентировочная дата поставки: Август-начало Сентября
При условии наличия книги у поставщика.

Добавить в корзину

в Мои желания

Автор: Ricks Christopher, Michaels Leonard
Название: The State of the Language: New Observations, Objections, Angers, Bemusements, Hilarities, Perplexities, Revelations, Prognostications, and Warnin
ISBN: 9780520301269
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Литература: история и критика

Теория литературы

ISBN-10: 0520301269
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 548
Вес: 0.80 кг.
Дата издания: 20.04.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 3.12 cm
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 that 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 negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of standard English and correctness. The bad language that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized--or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized?

Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. 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 detail, 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.

Some titles of essays in the book:
Whose English? by Sidney Greenbaum
Look, Ma, Im Talking by Sandra Gilbert
Fighting Talk by Marina Warner
No Opera Please--Were British by Michael Bawtree
Changing What We Sing by Margaret Doody
On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today by David Dabydeen
Talking Black by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Subway Graffiti by Walter J. Ong
Doublespeak by William Lutz
Its a Myth, Innit? Politeness and the English Tag Question by John Algeo

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

The State of the Language: New Observations, Objections, Angers, Bemusements, Hilarities, Perplexities, Revelations, Prognostications, and Warnin, Ricks Christopher, Michaels Leonard