Hardcover, 416 pages
English language
Published 1993 by William Morrow & Co.
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Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had made it out of a mouthful of air. Burgess advances this point by presenting a fascinating survey of language--how it operates, and how it will develop in the future--that ranges from Shakespearean pronunciation to the place of English in the world family of languages.
Subjects
- Reference
- Burgess, Anthony - Prose & Criticism
- English Language (General)
- Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
- General
- English language
- Language and languages