You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Robert Lane Greene

312 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative slow-paced

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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 way people use words. Now this sensational new book strikes back to d...

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