The State of the language /
Considers a wide range of topics related to contemporary language.
| Други автори: | Michaels, Leonard, 1933-2003., Ricks, Christopher, 1933- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1980.
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Съдържание:
- Sound barriers and Gangbangsprache / Randolph Quirk
- Dictionaries and ethnic sensibilities / Robert Burchfield
- Getting it wrong / Kingsley Amis
- Ritornello / Charles Tomlinson
- The corruption of English / John Simon
- Shall and will / Julian Boyd and Zelda Boyd
- Cliches / Christopher Ricks
- Pariamentary expressions / Ian Robinson
- The possessive case / Lisel Mueller
- The unfamiliarity of familiar letters / Frances Ferguson
- The language of address / Janet Whitcut
- Names / Basil Cottle
- "How shall we sing the Lord's song upon an alien soil?: The new Episcopalian liturgy / Margaret A. Doody
- Orthography / D.J. Enright
- An education in language / Richard Rodriguez
- How do you spell Gujarati, sir? / Jane Miller
- "How are you?" "I am fine, thank you. And you?" / Maxine Hong Kingston
- White English in Blackface, or Who do I be? / Geneva Smitherman
- Black English / Monroe K. Spears
- How not to get the infidel to talk the King's Talk / Ishmael Reed
- Yiddish voices in American English / Kathryn Hellerstein
- Playing in speech / Judy Dunn
- THe language of children's literature / Karla Kuskin
- The language of sisterhood / Angela Carter
- The political vocabulary of homosexuality / Edmund White
- Body language: Imagery of the body in women's poetry / Alicia Ostriker
- Protest poem / Vernon Scannell
- As the lingo languishes / M.F.K. Fisher
- At home in the abyss: Jonestown and the language of enormity / David Reid
- Aesthetics / Felix Pollak
- The language of screenwriting / Ronald Harwood
- Dubbing / Anthony Burgess
- The language of television / Frederic Raphael
- The language of novel reviewing / Mary-Kay Wilmers
- Architect talk / Nathan Silver
- Art language / Marina Vaizey
- Outside in: Music on language / Leon Botstein
- Values in language; or, Where have goodness, truth and beauty gone? / Josephine Miles
- Fire in a wooden stove: On being aware in language / Dwight Bolinger
- The voices of business / Louis B. Lundborg
- Doctor talk / Diane Johnson
- "My client has discussed your proposal to fill the drainage ditch with his partners": Legal language / David S. Levine
- Against formalism: Chickens and rocks / Walter Ben Michaels
- The language of American presidents / J.R. Pole
- The language of politics / J. Enoch Powell
- When talk is not cheap: Psychotherapy as conversation / Robin Tolmach Lakoff
- Language, truth, and psychology / Liam Hudson
- The language of philosophy / Michael Tanner
- Machinespeak / Hugh Kenner
- Language of detective fiction: Fiction of detective language / D.A. Miller
- Succeeding in language / Leo Braudy
- Where it's art: California language / David Lodge
- More is better: Or is it? / Gavin Ewart
- The modern language of consciousness / Andre Kukla
- Prison language / Sean McConville
- "More piercing than a whistle": Notes on English sounds in Russian ears / Simon Karlinsky
- Radio talk / Denis Donoghue
- Antaeus and Hercules: Some notes on the Irish predicament / John Dillon
- Sonata Form: The Australian Magpie / Peter Porter
- Language and social change / Quentin Skinner
- Authenticity: Codes and sincerity: Formulas / Robert M. Adams
- Words / Robert Mezey
- Legible death / Leonard Michaels.