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The miracle of language
| 責任表示 | Richard Lederer |
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| シリーズ | Pocket book |
| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | New York : Pocket Books , 1992 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xvii, 254 p. ; 18 cm |
| 概要 | Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom""(Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious ofhuman achievements... <P> Welcome to Richard Lederer'sbeguiling celebration o... language -- of our ability to utter,write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer isno linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string uplanguage offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," anddiscover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of smallreatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history:<P> "English never rejects a word because of race, creed, ornational origin. Did you know that" jukebox "comes from Gullah and"canoe "from Haitian Creole?" "Many of our greatest writers haveinvented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveydayconversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of ourwritten vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare didjust that!" <P> He also points out the pitfalls and pratfallsof English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the"The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?"and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon thatwhich makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate,compare, and evaluate.Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.続きを見る |
所蔵情報
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中央図 1A | 836/L 49/1 | 1992 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Includes index |
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| 著者標目 | *Lederer, Richard, 1938- |
| 件 名 | LCSH:English language -- Style
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LCSH:Language and languages -- Quotations, maxims, etc 全ての件名で検索 |
| 分 類 | NDC8:836 LCC:PE1421 DC20:428 |
| 書誌ID | 1000052817 |
| ISBN | 0671709402 |
| NCID | BA19658211 |
| 巻冊次 | : pbk. ; ISBN:0671709402 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.10 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.10 |