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The miracle of language

責任表示 Richard Lederer
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

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中央図 1A 836/L 49/1 1992
068582193003667

書誌詳細

一般注記 Includes index
著者標目 *Lederer, Richard, 1938-
件 名 LCSH:English language -- Style  全ての件名で検索
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