Garner's Modern English Usage
$225.52
- Hardcover
1312 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2023
Summary
The Definitive Guide to Modern English: Garner’s Usage Dictionary, Revised
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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197599020 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0197599028 |
| Author: | Bryan A. Garner |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1312 |
| Edition: | 5th |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 2.17kg |
| Dimensions: | 256mm x 186mm x 56mm |
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About The Author
Bryan A. Garner
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.
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