Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English?
by Newman, Edwin
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- ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SPEAKING. EDWIN NEWMAN Very Good Fair
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1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SPEAKING. EDWIN NEWMAN Very Good Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some tears in jacket. Staining on pages 18-19 but text is still legible. About the book: Admiring colleagues have called Edwin Newman an antipollutant, sensibly sardonic, a rare bird, a genial intellect, a man nobody is going to fool anywhere, anytime, anyway. Here, in his first book, these qualities are joined. Newman focuses on the sorry state of the English language as a reflection of the sorry state of the society. He skewers stereotypes, clichés, errors, and jargon used by weather forecasters, presidents, vice-presidents, sportscasters, diplomats, senators, pollsters, convention nominators, corporation executives, newsmen, advertisers, Watergate defendants, social scientists, college presidents, foreign correspondents, youth. If words are devalued, he argues, so are ideas and so are human beings. Drawing upon his wealth of experience in newspapers, radio, and television, Newman contends with headwind components, game plans, bottom lines, out of sight, confidence factors, unsightly bulges, nitty gritty, and such. He deflates the pompous, the grandiose, the stilted, and the hollow. He rejoices in language that is lucid, graceful, direct, civilized. The reader rejoices with him.
Synopsis
Strictly Speaking, by journalist and TV anchorman Edwin Newman, sub-titled "Will America be the death of English ?", was published in 1974. In the book Newman "skillfully skinned contemporary written and spoken English", pointing out how the language of Shakespeare had degenerated at the hands of business and politicians, becoming choked with "banalities, cliches, pomposities, redundancies and catchphrases".
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- Title
- Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English?
- Author
- Newman, Edwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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