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 English Usage pdf 布莱恩·加纳
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.