Name: The Story of Ain't: America, its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published (en Inglés)
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Author: David Skinner
ISBN: 9780062027498

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portada The Story of Ain't: America, its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Harpercollins

Autor

David Skinner

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780062027498

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx - c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia de américa

The Story of Ain't: America, its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published (en Inglés)

David Skinner (Autor) · Harpercollins · Tapa Blanda

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Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating artificial notions of correctness, basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The dictionary's revolutionary style sparked what David Foster Wallace called the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars. Editors and scholars howled for Gove's blood, calling him an enemy of clear thinking, a great relativist who was trying to sweep the English language into chaos. Critics bayed at the dictionary's permissive handling of ain't. Literary intellectuals such as Dwight Macdonald believed the dictionary's scientific approach to language and its abandonment of the old standard of usage represented nothing less than the unraveling of civilization. Entertaining and erudite, and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, The Story of Ain't describes a great societal metamorphosis, tracing the fallout of the world wars, the rise of an educated middle class, and the emergence of America as the undisputed leader of the free world, and illuminating how those forces shaped our language. Never before or since has a dictionary so embodied the cultural transformation of the United States.