23.2366, Books: Verbal Hygiene: Cameron

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Subject: Verbal Hygiene: Cameron

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Title: Verbal Hygiene 
Series Title: Routledge Linguistics Classics  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	   http://www.routledge.com/

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415696005/ 

Author: Deborah Cameron

Hardback: ISBN:  9780415695992 Pages: 328 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780415695992 Pages: 328 Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780415696005 Pages: 328 Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780415696005 Pages: 328 Price: U.S. $ 45.95

Abstract:

In "Verbal Hygiene", 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, she argues that popular 
discourse about language values - good and bad, right and wrong - serves 
an important function for those engaged in it. A series of case studies deal 
with specific examples of verbal hygiene: the regulation of 'style' by editors, 
the teaching of English grammar in schools, the movements for and against 
so-called 'politically correct' language and the advice given to women on how 
they can speak more effectively. 

This Routledge Linguistics Classic includes a new foreword which looks at 
how the issues covered in the case studies have developed over time and a 
new afterword which discusses new concerns which have emerged in the last 
15 years, from the regimentation of language in the workplace to panics about 
immigration and terrorism, which are expressed in linguistic terms. 

Addressed to linguists, to professional language-users of all kinds, and to 
anyone interested in language and culture, "Verbal Hygiene" calls for 
legitimate concerns about language and value to be discussed, by experts 
and lay-speakers alike, in a rational and critical spirit. 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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