A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 990
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780195142365

A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.

Garner's Modern American Usage

Garner's Modern American Usage
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University
Total Pages: 930
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195161912

Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2008-10-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191563587

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.

Grammar and Gender

Grammar and Gender
Author: Dennis E. Baron
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780300038835

Traces the history of sexual bias in the English language, examines attempts at reform, and discusses new words coined to reduce sexism in language