Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR'S Fresh Air - Hardcover

Nunberg, Geoffrey

 
9780618116027: Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR'S Fresh Air
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0618116028 ISBN 13: 9780618116027
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America’s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases. From our metaphors for the Internet (“Virtual Rialto”) to the perils of electronic grammar checkers (“The Software We Deserve”), from traditional grammatical bugaboos (“Sex and the Singular Verb”) to the ways we talk about illicit love (“Affairs of State”), Geoffrey Nunberg shows just how much the language we use from day to day reveals about who we are and who we want to be.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Geoffrey Nunberg is a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and a consulting professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. He is also chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He has published many articles in the scholarly and popular press and made numerous radio broadcasts on language and linguistics, the cultural implications of digital technologies, and language policy issues. For this work, he was given the 2001 Language, Linguistics, and the Public Interest Award by the Linguistic Society of America.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0618116028
ISBN 13 
9780618116027
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
243
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