Garner's Modern American Usage pdf

Bryan Garner (nato il 17 novembre 1958) è un avvocato, grammatico e lessicografo americano. Scrive anche di giurisprudenza (e occasionalmente di golf). È autore di oltre 25 libri, i più noti dei quali sono Garner's Modern English Usage (4a ed. 2016) e Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012 — coautore con il giudice Antonin Scalia), oltre a quattro integrali edizioni di Black's Law Dictionary. È Distinguished Research Professor of Law presso la Southern Methodist University. Di tanto in tanto insegna anche alla University of Texas School of Law, alla Texas A&M School of Law e alla Texas Tech School of Law. Nel 2009, è stato nominato autore del decennio di testi legali e libri di riferimento durante una cerimonia dei Burton Awards presso la Library of Congress. Ha ricevuto molti altri premi, tra cui il Benjamin Franklin Book Award, lo Scribes Book Award, il Bernie Siegan Award e un Lifetime Achievement Award dal Center for Plain Language. Il suo lavoro ha svolto un ruolo centrale nella nostra comprensione del giudizio moderno, dell'advocacy, della grammatica, dell'uso dell'inglese, della lessicografia legale e del sistema dei precedenti di common law. I suoi libri sono spesso citati dai tribunali americani di tutti i livelli, inclusa la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti.

Garner's Modern American Usage pdf da Bryan Garner

The first edition of Garner's Modern American Usage established Bryan Garner as ''an American equivalent of Fowler'' (Library Journal). With more than 23,500 copies sold, this witty, accessible, and engaging book has become the new classic reference work praised by professional copyeditors as well as the general public looking for clear advice on how to write more effectively. In 1999, Choice magazine named it an Outstanding Academic Book and the American Library Association dubbed it an Outstanding Reference Source. With thousands of succinct entries, longer essays on key issues and problematic areas, and up-to-the-minute judgments on everything from trendy words to the debate over personal pronouns, GMAU is approachable yet authoritative. Since the book first appeared in 1998, Bryan Garner has diligently continued tracking how we use our language. The second edition includes hundreds of new entries ranging from Dubya to weaponize (coined in 1984 but used extensively since 9/11) to foot-and-mouth, plethora (a ''highfalutin equivalent of too many''), Slang, Standard English, and Dialects. It also updates hundreds of existing entries. Meanwhile, Garner has written a major essay on the great grammar debate between descriptivists and prescriptivists. Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books and newspapers and newsmagazines, this new edition furthers Garner's mission to help everyone become a better writer, and to enjoy it in the process.