Fight for English How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left

Name: Fight for English How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
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ISBN: 9780199229697

ISBN-10: 0199229694

ISBN-13: 9780199229697

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Crystal

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Weve all been taught that this sentence--"Driving in from the airport, the flags flapped furiously"--is wrong, wrong, wrong. But is it, asks David Crystal. Everyone knows what this sentence means. No one actually thinks that the flags were driving the car. Is this sentence really incorrect. In The Fight for English, Crystal offers a stimulating account of the struggle between various schools of grammar to control how we write and speak. Ranging back a thousand years, to the anguished concerns of Aelfric the Grammarian, and illuminating the contributions of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and many others, the book sheds light on ten centuries of warfare over spelling, punctuation,…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.48" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




Beginnings



Complications



Variations



Standards



Reformers



Borrowings



Courtiers



Rustics



Authors



Censurers



Protectors



Chaos



Authorities



Change



Grammar



Appropriateness



Incorrectness



Perspicuity



Clarity



Punctuation



Antecedents



Consequences



Context



Spelling



Elocution



Pronunciation



Institutions



Education



Climates



Future