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Our Language

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Kiadó: Penguin Books Ltd
Kiadás helye: Harmondsworth
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Kötés típusa: Varrott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 204 oldal
Sorozatcím: Pelican Original
Kötetszám: A227
Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 18 cm x 11 cm
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Can we ever know too much about the words we use every day of our lives? It is the purpose of this book to present a clear and up-to-date picture of the English language as it is spoken and written in all its amazing variety and complexity. Professor Potter believes that more people today are interested in speech than ever before and that a new spirit of linguistic enterprise and adventure is astir. Can we make the English language of tomorrow yet more effective as a means of communication? ' The author is brilliantly successful in his effort to instruct by delighting. He has only 200 pages at his disposal, yet he contrives not only to give a history of English, but alsó to talk at his ease on rhyming, slang, names, spelling reform, American English, and much else. The book is admirably clear in its main outlines, but its interest for the common reader derives from the wealth of examples at every point: the chapter on names is particularly weil done. Altogether a fascinating... Tovább

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Can we ever know too much about the words we use every day of our lives? It is the purpose of this book to present a clear and up-to-date picture of the English language as it is spoken and written in all its amazing variety and complexity. Professor Potter believes that more people today are interested in speech than ever before and that a new spirit of linguistic enterprise and adventure is astir. Can we make the English language of tomorrow yet more effective as a means of communication? ' The author is brilliantly successful in his effort to instruct by delighting. He has only 200 pages at his disposal, yet he contrives not only to give a history of English, but alsó to talk at his ease on rhyming, slang, names, spelling reform, American English, and much else. The book is admirably clear in its main outlines, but its interest for the common reader derives from the wealth of examples at every point: the chapter on names is particularly weil done. Altogether a fascinating book'-Higher Education Journal Vissza

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