Verbal HygieneBAAL Book Prize Winner 1996 In this award winning book 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, however, she argues that popular discourse about language values; good and bad, right and wrong, serves an important function for those engaged in it. |
Contents
the politics of style | 33 |
the great grammar | 78 |
language and political | 116 |
verbal hygiene for women | 166 |
On the state of the state of the language | 212 |
Notes | 237 |
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References to this book
Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures Bill Cope,Mary Kalantzis No preview available - 2000 |
Discourse in Late Modernity: Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis Lilie Chouliaraki,Norman Fairclough No preview available - 1999 |