Author: Frederick H. HackettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Pure English
Author: Frederick H. HackettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Politics and the English Language
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724271
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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
A Treatise on the English Language
Author: Simon KerlPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
On the Essence of Language
Author: Martin HeideggerPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791462713
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.
A Treatise on the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language
Author: Alexander CrombiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Greene's Analysis. A treatise on the structure of the English language; or the analysis and classification of sentences and their component parts, etc
Author: Samuel S. GREENEA Treatise on the Structure of the English Language, Or, The Analysis and Classification of Sentences and Their Component Parts with Illustrations and Exercises Adapted to the Use of Schools
Author: Samuel Stillman GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A Hand-book of the English Language
Author: Robert Gordon LathamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A Manual of English Literature: a Text-book for Schools, Etc
Author: John Seeley HARTDoing Our Own Thing
Author: John McWhorterPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593330544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
“McWhorter is a gifted young linguist who seeks to understand the change in our verbal habits rather than just bemoan it, and his analysis is insightful, richly documented and, yes, eloquently written.”—Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate and The Language Instinct In Doing Our Own Thing, critically acclaimed linguist and cultural critic John McWhorter traces the precipitous decline of language in contemporary America, arguing persuasively that casual everyday speech has conquered the formal in all arenas, from oratory to poetry to everyday journalism—and has even had dire consequences for our musical culture. McWhorter argues that the swift and startling change in written and oral communication emanated from the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and its ideology that established forms and formality were autocratic and artificial. While acknowledging that the evolution of language is, in and of itself, inevitable and often benign, he warns that the near-total loss of formal expression in America is unprecedented in modern history and has reached a crisis point in our culture such that our very ability to convey ideas and arguments effectively is gravely threatened. By turns compelling and harrowing, passionate and judicious, Doing Our Own Thing is required reading for all concerned about the state of our language—and the future of intellectual life in America.