Verbal hygiene / Deborah Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Deborah, 1958-

Series:

Routledge Linguistics Classics

Routledge linguistics classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language purism.

Metalanguage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<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>

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-34208-7

0-203-12389-1

9780203123898

OCLC:

798532502