The Way We Talk Now
Book Details
Author(s)Geoffrey Nunberg
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN / ASIN0618116036
ISBN-139780618116034
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank521,321
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America’s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases. From our metaphors for the Internet (“Virtual Rialtoâ€) to the perils of electronic grammar checkers (“The Software We Deserveâ€), from traditional grammatical bugaboos (“Sex and the Singular Verbâ€) to the ways we talk about illicit love (“Affairs of Stateâ€), Geoffrey Nunberg shows just how much the language we use from day to day reveals about who we are and who we want to be.







