Bad Language Are Some Words Better Than Others?

Name: Bad Language Are Some Words Better Than Others?
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ISBN: 9780195172485

ISBN-10: 0195172485

ISBN-13: 9780195172485

Edition: 2005

Authors: Edwin L. Battistella

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Is today's language at an all-time low? Are pronunciations like cawfee and chawklit bad English? Is slang like my bad or hook up improper? Is it incorrect to mix English and Spanish, as in Yo quiero Taco Bell? Can you write Who do you trust? rather than Whom do you trust? Linguist Edwin Battistella takes a hard look at traditional notions of bad language, arguing that they are often based in sterile conventionality. Examining grammar and style, cursing, slang, and political correctness, regional and ethnic dialects, and foreign accents and language mixing, Battistella discusses the strong feelings evoked by language variation, from objections to the pronunciation NU-cu-lar to complaints…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/25/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Bad Language: Realism versus Relativism



Bad Writing



Bad Grammar



Bad Words



Bad Citizens



Bad Accents



Images and Engagement


Notes


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Index