Democratic Eloquence

Democratic Eloquence PDF Author: Kenneth Cmiel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520074859
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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"A penetrating account of the long debate about the kind of public language appropriate for a democratic society. . . . Cmiel manages to do justice to both sides."--Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism "Every scholar interested in the English language will put this book next to Mencken and Baugh. It will be indispensable to writing the social history of English into the 20th Century."--Joseph Williams, author of Origins of the English Language