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Watch your language! : mother tongue and her wayward children Cover Image Book Book

Watch your language! : mother tongue and her wayward children

Gorrell, Robert M. (Author).

Summary: Most language mavens seem to come not to praise English, but to bury it; they constantly warn us of the imminent demise of our mother tongue. Not to worry, says Robert Gorrell. In this lively, playful celebration of the joys and power of language, he points to all the signs that show English to be alive and well, and, like any other living thing, constantly evolving.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0874172357 (cloth : acid-free paper) :
  • ISBN: 9780874172355 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiv, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1994.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. Language and Society; Society and Language. Turning Black to White: Public Doublespeak. Jew's Harp and French Horn: Language and Racism. Fighting Words and Flaming Flags. Desexing the Language. Mind-Softening: Lying and the Teflon Effect. 51 Percent Truthful -- 2. Words and Their Ancestors: Family Trees. Folk Etymology and Punch and Judy. Birds and Animals. Names into Words. Family Trees with Straight Branches. Portmanteau Words. Etymologists at Play -- 3. Growing Pains: Dealing with Linguistic Changes. Semantic Change. New Kids on the Block. Workaholic and Suffixaholism. Autoantonyms. Conflicting Compounds. Positives and Negatives. Semantic Change and Reading Shakespeare. Draining Meaning: Making Words Empty. Words that Don't Change. Put Up, Put Out, Put In, Put Off, Put Over -- 4. The Ordinary Sentence: Grammar and Meaning. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Meaning and Grammar. Two Plus Two Equals Four, Not Five. Equations with Modifiers. Varying the Pattern. Modifiers: Dangling.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.

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