The State of the language /
| Други автори: | Ricks, Christopher B., Michaels, Leonard, 1933- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1990.
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Contributor biographical information Table of contents Publisher description |
Съдържание:
- On not being Milton : nigger talk in England today / David Dabydeen
- Whose English? / Sidney Greenbaum
- On hearing an Irish poem read in the Linenhall Library / Medbh McGuckian
- The language of discretion / Amy Tan
- British and American English : ex uno plura? / Robert Ilson
- Talking Black / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- On Jewish poetry in English / Nikki Stiller
- Naming the animals / Anthony Hecht
- Further thoughts : little words / Hugh Kenner
- Australian English now / Arthur Delbridge
- The inheritance / Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Further thoughts : sound barriers, ten years on / Randolph Quirk
- English at its twilight / Richard W. Bailey
- Articulacy : hints from the Koran / Donald Davie
- Fighting talk / Marina Warner
- Power : women and the word / Hermione Lee
- Ideologically speaking / Roger Scruton.
- Reflections on a (feminist) discourse of discourse, or, look, Ma, I'm talking! / Sandra M. Gilbert
- Further thoughts : the correct spelling of a secret word / M.F.K. Fisher
- Source / Ted Hughes
- AIDS : keywords / Jan Zita Grover
- Speaking in the shadow of AIDS / Wayne Koestenbaum
- AIDS : the linguistic battlefield / Michael Callen
- The pajama man : idyll without words / Seymour Chatman
- Pidgin English advertising / Suzanne Romaine
- Thanks, I suppose / Wendy Lesser
- From the novel Nice work / David Lodge
- Bear hugs and Bo Dereks on Wall Street / Kathleen Odean
- The missing common-law words / Bryan A. Garner
- The case of legal language / Martha Minow
- The world of doublespeak / William Lutz
- Public eloquence / David Reid.
- Further thoughts : the executives take over / Frederic Raphael
- Editing and its discontents / John Gross
- Notes on the language of poststructuralism / Alison Lurie
- Computers and language : an optimistic view / Michael Rogers
- Infomania / Michael Heim
- I'm having trouble with my relationship / Leonard Michaels
- Changing what we sing / Margaret A. Doody
- The refinery / Robert Pinsky
- Poets' letters : "The mind alone, without corporeal friend" / Lorrie Goldensohn
- Two kinds of English? : Jeffrey Archer and Anita Brookner / Robert Burchfield
- Language, music, and politics / Leon Botstein
- No opera please, we're British / Michael Bawtree
- The key : a prose poem / Paul Muldoon
- Boffo goes international / Paul Lenti
- Subway graffiti and the design of the self / Walter J. Ong
- Now and then / John Hollander
- Lars Porsena revisited / Roy Harris.
- Censorship / Fiona Pitt-Kethley
- Violent acts and prurient thoughts / Liz Hasse
- Dirty words / Lisa Nemrow
- It's a myth, innit? : politeness and the English tag question / John Algeo
- Yours / Keith Thomas
- Further thoughts : they can't even say it properly now / Kingsley Amis
- Word making and mistaking / Christopher Ricks
- What the usage panel thinks / Geoffrey Nunberg
- Further thoughts : grammar and syntax / J. Enoch Powell
- From Wordstruck / Robert MacNeil
- Hard characters / Elizabeth Rees
- The Federation of English / E.S.C. Weiner
- The what of the language? / Sylvia Adamson.