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A Mouthful of Air by Anthony Burgess · Booklabria

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A Mouthful of Air

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A Mouthful of Air

Name: A Mouthful of Air
Author: Anthony Burgess

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First published: 1992
Language: English
Editions: 9

Synopsis

Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had made it out of a mouthful of air. Burgess advances this point by presenting a fascinating survey of language--how it operates, and how it will develop in the future--that ranges from Shakespearean pronunciation to the place of English in the world family of languages.

Subjects: Language and languages

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