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Verbal Hygiene.
In Verbal Hygiene, Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. Instead of dismissing the practice of 'verbal hygiene', as a misguided and pernicious exercise, she argues that popular disc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge linguistics classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.