Language wars : a history of proper English

By:

Hitchings, Henry

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Picador 2011Description: 408ISBN:

9781250013941

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

420.9 HIT

Summary: "Exemplary...Hitchings has created a fascinating, wholly readable, and gratifyingly informative book."---"Financial Times "(London) The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter; often they've had more to do with morality, politics, and the values of the age than with language itself. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, "The Language Wars" is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary state of the English language, its contested history, and its future. 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	420.9 HIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		163590

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"Exemplary...Hitchings has created a fascinating, wholly readable, and gratifyingly informative book."---"Financial Times "(London)
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter; often they've had more to do with morality, politics, and the values of the age than with language itself. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, "The Language Wars" is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary state of the English language, its contested history, and its future.

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.

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