作者: Bryan A. Garner
出版社: Oxford University Press
副标题: 5th edition
出版年: 2022-11-17
页数: 1312
定价: USD49.5
装帧: 精装
ISBN: 9780197599020 The most original and authoritative voice of today’s English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a “regular” dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace’s words, Garner’s discussion of rhetoric and style still “borders on genius.” From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it’s for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the “purists” who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The purpose of Garner’s dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound “grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.” 当今英语词典编纂领域最具独创性与权威性的声音，为您呈现其备受喜爱的用法词典全新修订版 当布莱恩·加纳（Bryan Garner）于1999年出版《现代美式英语用法词典》（A Dictionary of Modern American Usage）第一版时，该书迅速成为英语领域有史以来最具影响力的文体指南之一。历经四个先前版本和二十多年的时光，我们的语言已在诸多方面发生演变，而大数据这一强大工具更是彻底革新了词典编纂领域。本次全面修订的新版充分捕捉了这些变化，其特色包括：一千个全新词条和两百多个替换词条；基于Google Ngram Viewer全面更新的词汇使用频率数据和比率；更均衡地涵盖全球英语变体（而不仅限于美式和英式英语）；以及纳入性别中立语言。然而，有一点始终未变：这绝非一本“普通”词典，而是由英语语言领域顶尖权威之一倾注智慧与个性撰写的词典编纂杰作。用大卫·福斯特·华莱士（David Foster Wallace）的话说，加纳对修辞与文体的论述依然“近乎天才”。 从 self-deprecating（自贬）与 self-depreciating（自贬，非标准用法）之间（已然失败的）较量，到 it's 对 its 的误用；从美式英语中变体拼写 patty-cake 取代 pat-a-cake（拍手游戏），到 they 的单数用法——加纳深入阐释了语法与词汇的微妙之处，以及现代写作者和说话者易犯的语言错误，无论是在选词、句法、措辞、标点还是发音方面。他的实证方法将英语从两个极端中解放出来：一方面是认为分裂不定式（split infinitives）和句末介词（sentence-ending prepositions）乃大错的“纯粹主义者”；另一方面则是相信人们所说所写的一切都必须被接受的语言相对主义者。 加纳词典的宗旨在于帮助写作者、编辑和演讲者有效运用语言。它以寓教于乐、令人信服的方式达成这一目标，助您表达得“合乎语法却自然放松，精炼考究却浑然天成，正确无误却毫不迂腐”。
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