33.3740, Books: Garner's Modern English Usage, 5th Edition: Garner

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Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:25:01
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Garner's Modern English Usage, 5th Edition: Garner

 


Title: Garner's Modern English Usage, 5th Edition 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/garners-modern-english-usage-9780197599020?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Bryan A Garner

Hardback: ISBN:  9780197599020 Pages: 1312 Price: U.S. $ 55


Abstract:

The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography
presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary

When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern
American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential
style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous
editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the
powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively
revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new
entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage
data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more
balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the
inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in
no sense is this a "regular" dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography
written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the
English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's
discussion of rhetoric and style still "borders on genius."

>From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the
misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over
pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains
the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which
modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax,
phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates
English from two extremes: from the "purists" who maintain that split
infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the
linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must
necessarily be accepted.

The purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers
use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way
that will help you sound "grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural,
correct but unpedantic."
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=164273




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