The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English - Hardcover

Abley, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679311025 ISBN 13: 9780679311027

Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

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Review:

"[A] fascinating account of developing English." (The Times)

"In The Prodigal Tongue, Mark Abley investigates the deep flux in contemporary English... Attuned to pop culture as well as to scholarship...it stylishly covers a large amount of ground, from Lee Kuan Yew to YouTube, via Spike Lee and Ice Cube... Joyous - a paean to the dynamic energies of English." (Telegraph)

"The Prodigal Tongue takes the reader on an informative and frequently entertaining journey." (Edmonton Journal)

"[A] witty and well-documented treatise on the ways -- some of them alarming -- in which the English language is changing" (Winnipeg Free Press)

"As a poet, journalist, editor, intrepid traveller, scholar and endlessly curious spirit, Abley brings an appropriately eclectic perspective to the subject. ... Writing as an inquisitive, bemused Everyman, Abley leads us on a lively intellectual journey through uncharted territory, his comfort in the zone of ambiguity making him the ideal travel guide" (The Gazette)

Book Description:

From Ice Cube to You Tube via 'Singlish' and Bouncebackability - Mark Abley travels the globe to report on the dynamic new forces shaping the future of the English language

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0679311025
• ISBN 13: 9780679311027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262