The Oxford companion to the English language /

By: McArthur, Tom [Editor]Contributor(s): McArthur, TomMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1992Description: xxvii, 1184 p. : ill., mapISBN: 019214183X (alk. paper) :Subject(s): English philology | Language and languagesDDC classification: 420 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
Accents and dialects (American English, Ozspeak, Scouse); key people (Johnson, Chomsky); literature (poetic diction, Joyce); names (Eponym, place-names); style (plain English, sexism); education (reading, TEFL); grammar (parts of speech, modal verbs); usage (doublespeak, Fowler); wordgames (crosswords, Scrabble); jargons (air traffic control English); media (BBC, Websters); technology (QWERTY, hypertext).
Summary: Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky.
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Includes index.

Accents and dialects (American English, Ozspeak, Scouse); key people (Johnson, Chomsky); literature (poetic diction, Joyce); names (Eponym, place-names); style (plain English, sexism); education (reading, TEFL); grammar (parts of speech, modal verbs); usage (doublespeak, Fowler); wordgames (crosswords, Scrabble); jargons (air traffic control English); media (BBC, Websters); technology (QWERTY, hypertext).

Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky.

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