Going Nucular by Geoffrey Nunberg
The Fresh Air commentator and New York Times contributor artfully shows how our use of language reveals the true mindset of contemporary America
"In his "feisty" and "humorous" essays, Geoffrey Nunberg "cracks the codes embedded in many familiar terms used in media, business, technology and politics to reveal unexpected insights about our fractious society"Publishers Weekly"
Geoffrey Nunberg is a senior researcher at the centre for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and a Consulting Full Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. He is chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. Since 1989, he has done a regular language feature on NPR's "Fresh Air," and more recently he has been doing regular features about language and topical issues for the Sunday New York Times "Week in Review."
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| ISBN 13 | 9781586483456 |
| ISBN 10 | 1586483455 |
| Title | Going Nucular |
| Author | Geoffrey Nunberg |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Year published | 2005-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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