Garner''s Modern English Usage

Garner's Modern English Usage is one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. With more than a thousand new entries, 200 replacement entries, and thoroughly updated usage data, this fifth edition is fully abreast of the times and further establishes the author as the authority on effective writing.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgments


• List of Essay Entries


• List of Abbreviations


• Pronunciation Guide


• Key to the Language-Change Index


• GARNER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE


• Glossary of Grammatical, Rhetorical, and Other Language-Related Terms


• A Timeline of Books on Usage


• Select Bibliography


• Select Index of Writers Quoted or Mentioned

About the author

Bryan A. Garner's work has been recognized as pioneering across a wide range of fields, including English usage, grammar, legislative drafting, and legal lexicography. He has written more than 25 books, many of them award-winning, including The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation; Garner on Language and Writing; Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts and Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges (both with Justice Antonin Scalia); Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage; Legal Writing in Plain English; The Elements of Legal Style; The Winning Brief; and Ethical Communications for Lawyers. As editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of the grammar and usage chapter in The Chicago Manual of Style, he has become one of the most authoritative and widely cited English lexicographers. He is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University and president of LawProse Inc.

Summary

Garner's Modern English Usage is one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. With more than a thousand new entries, 200 replacement entries, and thoroughly updated usage data, this fifth edition is fully abreast of the times and further establishes the author as the authority on effective writing.

Additional text

An erudite work of both practical and scholarly interest.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Garner, Bryan a (Southern Methodist University and Garner, Bryan A (Southern Methodist University and President Law Prose Inc) Garner, Bryan A. Garner, Bryan A. (Distinguished Research Professor Garner, Garner Bryan A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780197599020
• ISBN: 978-0-19-759902-0
• No. of pages: 1312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Linguistics, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, REFERENCE / Thesauri, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography, Lexicography, Dictionaries, Thesauri, Thesauri / conceptual dictionaries