Verbal hygiene / Deborah Cameron
1995, 1st Paperback Edition. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #340966
Physical description: 264 pages. Contents: Front Cover; Verbal Hygiene; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. On verbal hygiene; 2. Restrictive practices: the politics of style; 3. Dr Syntax and Mrs Grundy: the great grammar crusade; 4. Civility and its discontents: language and 'political correctness'; 5. The new Pygmalion: verbal hygiene for women; 6. On the state of the state of the language; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index. Subjects: Language purism. English language Grammar. Language policy.
Language and languages. Feminism in linguistics.
Language and languages Political aspects.
Price: €12.95