The Years of Talking Dangerously
by Geoff Nunberg
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?There has never been," Nunberg writes, ?an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world.... Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them." These are the years of talking dangerously, and Nunberg is a sure guide to the pitfalls. With illuminating intelligence and devastating humor, Nunberg decodes the changing syntax of Time Magazine, explains why grammar show more buffs are drawn to sarcasm, and deftly unpacks the telling phrases of our national conversation, show lessTags
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He is a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center & a consulting professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. He is also chair of the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary of the english Language. He lives in San Francisco. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 306.440973 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Specific aspects of culture Language History North America United States
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- PE2809 .N875 — Language and Literature English language English Dialects. Provincialisms, etc.
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