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You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
You Are What You Speak Grammar Grouches Language Laws and the Politics of Identity
Author: Robert Lane Greene
"An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - Kirkus — What is it about other people?s language that moves some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers the world over have donned the cloak of authority to control the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780553807875
ISBN-10: 0553807870
Publication Date: 3/8/2011
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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