Walter Nash

An Uncommon Tongue (eBook, ePUB)

The Uses and Resources of English

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1991, An Uncommon Tongue explores the theme of usage in its widest sense: usage as what we say or write; usage as a social question; usage as a literary convention; usage and creativity.

The book reflects on the practice and status of the English language in the modern world and the demands it makes on its academic disciplines. It puts forward the argument that the study of usage transcends both the 'prescriptive' and 'descriptive' and is ultimately 'constructive', displaying the resources of language and exploring their use.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000365542
• Artikelnr.: 62659682

Autorenporträt

Walter Nash

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Standards and Stuff
2: Usage, Users and the Used
3: The Difficulty of Explaining: A Word or Two about Dictionaries
4: Our True Intent: Or What's the Point of Punctuation?
5: The Possibilities of Paraphrase
6: On Parody: A Discourse with Interludes
7: The Meanings of Metadiscourse
8: On Writing Well
9: Composition and Creativeness
10: Historic Event, Creative Effort: The Making of a Dramatic Poem
11: English: A Global Resource?
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
Index

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Preface; 1: Standards and Stuff; 2: Usage, Users and the Used; 3: The Difficulty of Explaining: A Word or Two about Dictionaries; 4: Our True Intent: Or What's the Point of Punctuation?; 5: The Possibilities of Paraphrase; 6: On Parody: A Discourse with Interludes; 7: The Meanings of Metadiscourse; 8: On Writing Well; 9: Composition and Creativeness; 10: Historic Event, Creative Effort: The Making of a Dramatic Poem; 11: English: A Global Resource?; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Index