ISBN: 9780520044005 - State of the Language (13 results)

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: New ] Publisher: University of California Press Pub Date: 12/4/1979 Binding: Paperback Pages: 624 New edition.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Book is clean an tight. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. University of California Press 1979 Very Good/ Printed in 1980. Light wear to bright glossy cover, Unmarked pages are lightly tanned. 609 pages. HEAVY ITEM 1.81 Pounds. No Exp.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Textblock is clean and tight. Light folding to the edges, lightly creased corners, light soiling down the spine. 609pp., including notes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:0520044002.…

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Aus einer Bibliothek ausgesondert/ Stempel; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. "Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of this book. "The language is in rude health," wrote another. Here is the book anew, with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between different varieties of English and those with which they compete or cooperate. The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of "standard English" and correctness. The "bad language" that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized--or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized? Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s.…

Condition: Good. Slight shelfwear old sticker on back cover contents fine.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60111439: 1980. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 609 pages. Dessin en noir et blanc en frontispice et page de titre. Tranche légèrement salie. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.