The Language Wars by Henry Hitchings
Exemplary.Hitchings has created a fascinating, wholly readable, and gratifyingly informative book.---Financial Times (London)
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter; often they've had more to do with morality, politics, and the values of the age than with language itself. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, The Language Wars is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary state of the English language, its contested history, and its future.
Henry Hitchings is an award-winning writer, reviewer and critic. He has written for the Guardian, London Review of Books, TLS, Financial Times and New Statesman, and is currently the Evening Standard's theatre critic. He is the author of several acclaimed books on language, literature and culture, including Dr Johnson's Dictionary, How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read and The Language Wars. In 2008, he was shortlisted for the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and in the same year his book The Secret Life of Words won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374183295 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374183295 |
| Title | The Language Wars |
| Author | Henry Hitchings |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Year published | 2011-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
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