Verbal hygiene / Deborah Cameron
by Cameron, Deborah
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- ISBN 10
- 041510355X
- ISBN 13
- 9780415103558
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About This Item
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 1995. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 264 pages. Contents: Front Cover; Verbal Hygiene; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 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; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index. Subjects: Language purism. English language Grammar. Language policy.Language and languages. Feminism in linguistics.Language and languages Political aspects.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Verbal hygiene / Deborah Cameron
- Author
- Cameron, Deborah
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 041510355X
- ISBN 13
- 9780415103558
- Publisher
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1995
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