Bryan Garner (né le 17 novembre 1958) est un avocat, grammairien et lexicographe américain. Il écrit également sur la jurisprudence (et occasionnellement sur le golf). Il est l'auteur de plus de 25 livres, dont les plus connus sont Garner's Modern English Usage (4e éd. 2016) et Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012—co-écrit avec le juge Antonin Scalia), ainsi que quatre versions intégrales éditions du Black's Law Dictionary. Il est professeur émérite de recherche en droit à la Southern Methodist University. Il enseigne également de temps à autre à la faculté de droit de l'Université du Texas, à la faculté de droit Texas A&M et à la faculté de droit Texas Tech.
En 2009, il a été nommé Auteur de rédaction juridique et d'ouvrages de référence de la décennie lors d'une cérémonie de remise des prix Burton à la Bibliothèque du Congrès. Il a reçu de nombreux autres prix, dont le Benjamin Franklin Book Award, le Scribes Book Award, le Bernie Siegan Award et un Lifetime Achievement Award du Center for Plain Language.
Son travail a joué un rôle central dans notre compréhension du jugement moderne, du plaidoyer, de la grammaire, de l'usage de l'anglais, de la lexicographie juridique et du système de jurisprudence de la common law. Ses livres sont fréquemment cités par les tribunaux américains de tous niveaux, y compris la Cour suprême des États-Unis.
Garner’s Modern English Usage pdf par Bryan Garner
Bryan Garner is the most trusted living usage expert of our day, and Garner's Modern English Usage is the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. With well over 6,000 entries on English grammar, syntax, word choice, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and style, this book is adored by professional writers and general readers alike. In this major update to a timeless classic, Bryan Garner has dramatically expanded coverage of
international English usage, making the volume for the first time a guide not only to American English usage, but to English usage around the globe.
Interest in the English language is greater than ever; English is the lingua franca not only of higher education and academia, but of science, business, computing, aviation, and even - arguably - entertainment. An awareness of global English matters today as never before. To ensure that Bryan Garner's clear, unambiguous advice resonates with English-speakers worldwide, more than 2,000 entries have been revised to account for the nuances of English not only in the United States, but in Australia
and New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and South Africa.
Not everything has changed: readers will still find the popular "Garner's Language-Change Index" which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from non-acceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. Bryan Garner's tools for scientific accuracy are, however, fully updated: this fourth edition benefits from usage data generated by Google Ngrams, which charts frequencies of any
word or short sentence in sources printed after 1800.
With thousands of concise entries, longer essays on problematic areas such as subject-verb agreement and danglers, and meticulous citations of the New York Times, Newsweek, and other leading journalistic sources, this fourth edition of Garner's Modern English Usage provides priceless reference information to anyone hoping to improve as a writer - worldwide.