Verbal hygiene / / Deborah Cameron
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| Autore: |
Cameron Deborah <1958-, >
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| Titolo: |
Verbal hygiene / / Deborah Cameron
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| Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.44 |
| Soggetto topico: | Language purism |
| Metalanguage | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Verbal Hygiene; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgentents; 1. On verbal hygiene; 2. Restrictive practices: the politics of style; 3. Dr Syntax and Mrs Grundy: the great grammar crusade; 4. Civility and its discontents: language and 'political correctness'; 5. The new Pygmalion: verbal hygiene for women; 6. On the state of the state of the language; Afterword; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | <P>This reissue will include a new foreword and an afterword which will address the original need for the book and developments which have occurred since publishing the book. </P> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Verbal hygiene |
| ISBN: | 1-136-34208-7 |
| 0-203-12389-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779041503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge Linguistics Classics