Winston, Brian (2010) 'IMHO'. International Journal of Communications, 10 (4). ISSN 1932-8036

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Abstract

Review article of Davide Crystal, 'TXT'. OUP, 2010 & Dennis Baron, 'A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers and the Digital Revolution', OUP, 2009 If the British ever became sophisticated enough to recognize proper public intellectuals, then David Crystal would be a front-runner to be so considered. As a prolific, serious, and highly regarded linguist, with an enviable ability to explicate lucidly the most complex concepts, he has long conducted a war on behalf of the living tongue against the English style police — the sort of people who would welcome an English Language Academy with powers to match the stifling authority of the Real Academia Española, the Accademia della Crusca, or the Académie française.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Review article of Davide Crystal, 'TXT'. OUP, 2010 & Dennis Baron, 'A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers and the Digital Revolution', OUP, 2009 If the British ever became sophisticated enough to recognize proper public intellectuals, then David Crystal would be a front-runner to be so considered. As a prolific, serious, and highly regarded linguist, with an enviable ability to explicate lucidly the most complex concepts, he has long conducted a war on behalf of the living tongue against the English style police — the sort of people who would welcome an English Language Academy with powers to match the stifling authority of the Real Academia Española, the Accademia della Crusca, or the Académie française.
Keywords:	texting, digital printing
Subjects:	P Mass Communications and Documentation > P300 Media studies
Divisions:	College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Media
Depositing User:	Brian Winston
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2011 15:22
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2011 16:36
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/3857

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