Garner's Modern American Usage pdf

布莱恩·加纳（1958 年 11 月 17 日出生）是美国律师、语法学家和词典编纂者。他还撰写有关法理学的文章（偶尔也会写高尔夫）。他着有超过 25 本书，其中最著名的是 Garner 的《现代英语用法》（2016 年第 4 版）和《阅读法：法律文本的解释》（2012 年——与安东宁·斯卡利亚大法官合着），以及四本未删节的布莱克法律词典的版本。他担任南卫理公会大学法学杰出研究教授。他还不时在德克萨斯大学法学院、德克萨斯 A&M 法学院和德克萨斯理工大学法学院任教。 2009 年，他在国会图书馆举行的伯顿奖颁奖典礼上被评为十年法律写作和参考书作者。他还获得了许多其他奖项，包括本杰明·富兰克林图书奖、文士图书奖、伯尼·西根奖和明语中心颁发的终身成就奖。 他的工作在我们理解现代判断、辩护、语法、英语用法、法律词典和普通法判例系统方面发挥了核心作用。他的著作经常被包括美国最高法院在内的美国各级法院引用。

Garner's Modern American Usage pdf 布莱恩·加纳

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.