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Author : John Ivan Simon
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4320241
Author : John Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 0701126019
Author : John Ivan Simon
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015000522220
Author : Herbert C. Morton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521558697
The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the controversy, set within the larger background of how the dictionary was planned and put together by its editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove. Based on original research and interviews with the people who knew and worked with Gove, this is a human story as well as the story of the making of a dictionary. The author skilfully interweaves an account of Gove's character and working habits with the evolution of the dictionary. The reception given Webster's Third - now widely regarded as one of the greatest dictionaries of our time - illuminates public misconceptions about language and the role of dictionaries.
Author : Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501707636
Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell, Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay—a belief today perpetuated by the mass media themselves—has become the dominant view of mass culture in our time. While not defending mass culture in its present form, Brantlinger argues that the view of culture implicit in negative classicism obscures the question of how the media can best be used to help achieve freedom and enlightenment on a truly democratic basis.
Author : Robert Pattison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195034233
This book is original, informed, brilliantly argued, and written with real passion ... It is going to be very useful in the literacy debates in the next few years.--Richard Lanham.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139851213
The notion of a 'standard' variety of English has been the subject of a considerable body of research. Studies have tended to focus on the standard features of British and American English. However, more recently interest has turned to the other varieties of English that have developed around the world and the ways in which these have also been standardised. This volume provides the first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes', with chapters on areas as diverse as Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. This is a timely and important topic, edited by a well-known scholar in the field, with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed. The book presents in full the criteria for defining a standard variety, and each chapter compares standards in both spoken and written English and explores the notion of register within standard varieties.
Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199185
The book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various types of relevant information: Alston's bibliography of 1965, showing that this source needs to be revised urgently; the recently published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues and library catalogues); Carol Percy's database on the reception of eighteenth-century grammars in contemporary periodical reviews; and so-called precept corpora containing data on the treatment in a large variety of grammars (and other works) of individual grammatical constructions. By focussing on individual grammars and their history a number of long-standing questions are solved with respect to the authorship of particular grammars and related work (the Brightland/Gildon grammar and the Bellum Grammaticale; Ann Fisher's grammar) while new questions are identified, such as the significant change of approach between the publication of one grammar and its second edition of seven years later (Priestley), and the dependence of later practical grammars (for mothers and their children) on earlier publications. The contributions present a view of the grammarians as individuals with (or without) specific qualifications for undertaking what they did, with their own ideas on teaching methodology, and as writers ultimately engaged in the common aim presenting practical grammars of English to the general public. Interestingly - and importantly - this collection of articles demonstrates the potential of ECCO as a resource for further research in the field.
Author : Henry Hitchings
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781429995030
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values-morality, politics, and class. The Language Wars examines the present state of the conflict, its history, and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving chronologically, the book explores the most persistent issues to do with English and unpacks the history of "proper" usage. Where did these ideas spring from? Who has been on the front lines in the language wars? The Language Wars examines grammar rules, regional accents, swearing, spelling, dictionaries, political correctness, and the role of electronic media in reshaping language. It also takes a look at such details as the split infinitive, elocution, and text messaging. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, The Language Wars is an essential volume for anyone interested in the state of the English language today or its future.
Author : Edwin L. Battistella,Dean School of Arts and Letters and Professor of English Edwin L Battistella
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195172485
Is today's language at an all-time low? Edwin Battistella argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Re-examining debates over relativism in language, Battistella argues that we should view language as made up of alternative forms of regularity and orderliness, which require informed engagement with usage.
Author : Charles Suhor
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588383938
In Creativity and Chaos: Reflections on a Decade of Progressive Change in Public Schools, 1967–1977, Charles Suhor brings to life the bold challenges to the status quo in education during a decade of national turmoil. The regimentation and rote learning of traditional schooling could not have escaped the restless temper of the times―Vietnam war protests, racial strife, assassinations, hippie communes, the sexual revolution, an emerging drug culture, and daring innovations in pop/rock music. Suhor describes his immersion in post-World War II popular culture of New Orleans as a rich backdrop for his years as an impassioned educational reformer at local and national levels. A risk-taking teacher and district supervisor of English, he plunged headlong into controversies over black literature, censorship, ebonics, the "new grammar," faculty integration, testing, standardization, and computer technology. He demonstrates how the sweeping national trends often took quirky, distinctive turns in a city that delights in marching to a different drummer. Suhor's engaging account takes the reader into classrooms as well as the intrigues of central office politics and national leaders' disputes on how to best teach students in a time of change. In no sense a doctrinal liberal, he lambastes the errors and excesses of the progressive movement and traces its decline and the backlash demand for a return to basic skills. Suhor concludes with an update on innovations that have waned or persisted in today's schools.
Author : Jerry Roberts
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781595809223
The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age of the 1970s, and into the 21st century, critics have educated generations of discriminating moviegoers on the differences between good films and bad. They call attention to great directors, cinematographers, production designers, screenwriters, and actors, and shed light on their artistic visions and storytelling sensibilities. People interested in what the great film critics had to say have usually been shortchanged as to their backgrounds, and just why they are qualified to sit in judgment. Using mini-biographies, placed within a chronological framework, The Complete History of American Film Criticism is the biography of a profession whose cultural impact has left an indelible mark on the 20th century’s most significant art form.
Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429558146
Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic, featuring: a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides over the years; an authoritative comparison of this advice with actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database – developed specifically to enable this line of study – as well as more mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC; a close analysis of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging the Unbridgeable" research project’s blog.* With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, the history of English and sociolinguistics. *Found at https://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/
Author : Bas Aarts,April McMahon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405178402
The Handbook of English Linguistics is a collection ofarticles written by leading specialists on all core areas ofEnglish linguistics that provides a state-of-the-art account ofresearch in the field. Brings together articles from the core areas of Englishlinguistics, including syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, aswell as variation, discourse, stylistics and usage Written by specialists from around the world Provides an introduction to a key area of English Linguisticsand includes a discussion of the most recent theoretical anddescriptive research, as well as extensive bibliographicreferences
Author : Edwin Cameron,Mark Gevisser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136656026
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy.