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Edwin L. Battistella

Author of Sorry About That: The Language of Public Apology

9+ Works 62 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Edwin L. Battistella is Dean of Arts and Letters and Professor of English at Southern Oregon University

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Image credit: Photo by Sheryl H. Eldridge, Newport Oregon Public Library

Works by Edwin L. Battistella

Sorry About That: The Language of Public Apology (2014) 22 copies

Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others? (2005) 14 copies

Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump (2020) 11 copies

Do You Make These Mistakes in English?: The Story of Sherwin Cody's Famous Language School (2008) 5 copies

The Logic of Markedness (1996) 3 copies

Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure of Language (Suny Series in Linguistics) (1990) 3 copies

Topics of the Theory of Inflection 2 copies

Do You Make These Mistakes in English?: The Story of Sherwin Cody's Famous Language School: The Story of Sherin Cody's… (2008) 1 copy

Papers on Computational and Cognitive Science 1 copy

Associated Works

All Things Morphology (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) (2021) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Battistella, Edwin L.
Other names: Battistella, Ed
Gender: male
Occupations: professor (writing|English)
Organizations: Southern Oregon University
Linguistic Society of America

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Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others? by Edwin L. Battistella

What do you believe about language? This book discusses and analyzes our beliefs and usage of the English language in an attempt to dispel some of the myths about the nature of our language. It is an enlightening discussion of language standards and how our perspectives about them are formed.

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Oregon Book Awards

Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others? (Finalist – Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction – 2006)

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Works: 9
Also by: 1
Members: 62
Popularity: #271,094
Rating: ½ 3.4

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 24

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