The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way - Couverture rigide

Bryson, Bill

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0688078958 ISBN 13 : 9780688078959

Editeur : William Morrow & Co, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Bryson Bill

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...'Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use. Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.

Présentation de l'éditeur

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow & Co
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0688078958
• ISBN 13: 9780688078959
• Reliure: Relié