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Author : S. I. HAYAKAWA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Use and Misuse of LANGUAGE written by S. I. HAYAKAWA and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. I. Hayakawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Use and Misuse of Language written by S. I. Hayakawa and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598057594
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)
Download or read book The Use and Misuse of Language written by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Use and Misuse of Language written by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Embree
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1620870479
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Abused, Confused, and Misused Words written by Mary Embree and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and enlightening reference that demystifies some of the most mistreated words in the English language.
Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627794735
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Words on the Move written by John McWhorter and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively” rather than “by the letter,” or the way young people use LOL and like, or business jargon like What’s the ask? -- it often seems as if the language is deteriorating before our eyes. But the truth is different and a lot less scary, as John McWhorter shows in this delightful and eye-opening exploration of how English has always been in motion and continues to evolve today. Drawing examples from everyday life and employing a generous helping of humor, he shows that these shifts are a natural process common to all languages, and that we should embrace and appreciate these changes, not condemn them. Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once meant “blessed”? Or that ought was the original past tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the word like? And have you ever wondered why some people from New Orleans sound as if they come from Brooklyn? McWhorter encourages us to marvel at the dynamism and resilience of the English language, and his book offers a lively journey through which we discover that words are ever on the move and our lives are all the richer for it.
Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898703627
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power written by Josef Pieper and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends. Reality becomes intelligible through words. Man speaks so that through naming things, what is real may become intelligible. This mediating character of language, however, is being increasingly corrupted. Tyranny, propaganda, mass-media destroy and distort words. They offer us apparent realities whose fictive character threatens to become opaque. Josef Pieper shows with energetic zeal, but also with ascetical restraint, the path out of this dangerous situation. We are constrained to see things again as they are and from the truth thus grasped, to live and to work.
Author : David R. Olson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107162890
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Mind on Paper written by David R. Olson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows why reading and writing are essential to developing a consciousness of language that, in turn, lies at the core of rationality.
Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110197026X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Word by Word written by Kory Stamper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Author : Mark Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781683590552
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Authorized written by Mark Ward and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today? The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years―and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In Authorized Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word. In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must "heare CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue." In Authorized Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators' view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called "the very vulgar"―and what we would call "the man on the street."
Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317887875
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Language - The Loaded Weapon written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there is a reawakening interest in how language affects our lives. It comes with every threat to our safety and every promise of better times. It is a burning issue among minorities and a running debate between the attackers and defenders of our schools. Our deepest problems all are entangled with it: What shall be the official speech of emerging nations like Zambia and the Philippines, or even in certain areas of established ones like Belgium and Canada? What kind of English should be taught, or should there be no standard at all? How is government to make its regulations understandable? What are the verbal persuasions of television doing to our children? Which way does information flow, what are its biases, when does it inform and when conceal, and who benefits? Are the people who consider themselves experts in these matters as expert as they pretend to be? We feel adrift in a sea of words, and would welcome and a chart and a compass. Language – The Loaded Weapon offers a glimpse of what the recent study of language is beginning to tell us about these things. It explains in simple terms the essentials of linguistic form and meaning, and applies them to illuminate questions of correctness, truth, class and dialect, manipulation through advertising and propaganda, sexual and other discrimination, official obfuscation and the maintenance of power, and – most pervasive of all – language as the vital agent with which we build our worlds. Explaining language has been Dwight Bolinger’s life work, and as his invigorating new book amply shows he believes that what is true and important can also be made clear and pleasurable.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Politics and the English Language written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : Magen Mhaka-Mutepfa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030857328
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Substance Use and Misuse in sub-Saharan Africa written by Magen Mhaka-Mutepfa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scholars from across the behavioural sciences and public health to examine substance use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Divided into two parts, the first chapters examine aetiology, signs and symptoms, risk factors, impact, and psychosocial challenges relating to use of conventional drugs, among others. The second section focuses on prevention and intervention strategies to curtail substance abuse. The authors provide a research-informed, practical resource on sustainable community health concepts, procedures and practices for addressing substance use for the health and wellbeing of partner communities. The prevention and intervention strategies discussed include a comprehensive consideration of context-specific behavioural, environmental, psychosocial and cultural factors that may affect substance use. The chapters examine various aspects of use including, dependency, intoxication, and withdrawal in tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other substances. The book provides a research-informed, practical resource that will appeal to students and scholars of psychology, psychiatry and public health; as well as to policymakers and practitioners in the fields of addiction, development and allied health.
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780941711814
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Anguished English written by Richard Lederer and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.
Author : Associate Secretary-General Camiel Hamans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198827894
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Language, History, Ideology written by Associate Secretary-General Camiel Hamans and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents twelve in-depth case studies that critically examine the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. These varying interactions have been present since the birth of historical-comparative linguistics as a field of study. Work in historical linguistics may be appropriated or rejected for ideological reasons, most notably in the debates surrounding the Indo-European homeland; it can also by influenced by ideological biases, as in the 'alternative' histories that have been proposed for Moldovan and Maltese. The development of linguistically-defined nation states may itself fuel linguistic change, for instance through the suppression of minority languages or the division of existing languages to mirror political divisions, as occurred in the Balkans; or it may lead to the formulation of pseudo-histories designed to give a nation a more prestigious past. The book will be of interest not only to historical linguists but also to anthropologists, historians, and all those interested in language policy.
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307277127
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Literature written by Marjorie Garber and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking. But what is literature anyway, how has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who gets to decide what the word means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, other than serving as bourgeois or aristocratic accoutrements attesting to one’s worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? What are the boundaries that separate it from its “commercial” instance and from other more mundane kinds of writing? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read, much less study—and what would that mean?
Author : Roger Shuy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 063120153X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Language Crimes written by Roger Shuy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-06-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Crimes tells the story of some of the remarkable criminal court cases in which Roger Shuy has served as a consultant or expert witness. These intriguing cases show how linguistic analysis can help the courts unravel the ambiguities of taped conversations used in evidence.
