Lane Greene: 2 books
You Are What You Speak
Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
"An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - Kirkus
What is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers the world...
Talk on the Wild Side
Why Language Can't Be Tamed
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory.
Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on...