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- Pronoun Trouble : The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593713281
ISBN-13
9780593713280
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4064611539
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Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Pronoun Trouble : the Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Subject
General, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Linguistics / Etymology, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2025
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Humor
Format
Hardcover
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0.9 in
Item Weight
9.4 Oz
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7.3 in
Item Width
5.2 in
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2024-030168
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"John McWhorter starts with 'I' and 'me' and ends up circling the world, with stops along the way for Shakespeare, Sesame Street, Broadway musicals, Elmer Fudd, and a hundred other unexpected and fascinating digressions. The only thing better than reading Pronoun Trouble would be sitting next to John McWhorter at a dinner party." --Malcolm Gladwell, "John McWhorter starts with 'I' and 'me' and ends up circling the world, with stops along the way for Shakespeare, Sesame Street, Broadway musicals, Elmer Fudd, and a hundred other unexpected and fascinating digressions. The only thing better than reading Pronoun Trouble would be sitting next to John McWhorter at a dinner party." --Malcolm Gladwell "Who would have thought a decade ago that the words inciting shame and outrage would not be slurs identified by a first consonant, or a sexual term with four letters, but the humble pronoun? That's where we are today, and no one could make better sense of this part of speech than our national treasure, John McWhorter. As with all his commentary on language, Pronoun Trouble explains its subject with clarity, insight, and good judgment." -- Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct he, him, his "John McWhorter takes a small-seeming subject, the pronoun, one made resonant in the past few years, and with his unique mix of charm, linguistic erudition, and common sense, explains it all to us. Readers may be so taken with his delicate analysis of examples--his passages on 'Ima' and 'Let's' are alone worth the price of admission--that they may miss his larger point: we make our languages far more than they make us, and a passionate pluralism of concepts and voices is as essential to a sane view of the way we speak as it is to a sane view of the way we live." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
Synopsis
With his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronouns The nature of language is to shift and evolve--but every so often, a new usage creates a whole lot of consternation. These days, pronouns are throwing curveballs, and it matters, because pronoun habits die hard. If you need a refresher from eighth-grade English: Pronouns are short, used endlessly, and serve to point and direct, to orient us as to what is meant about who. Him, not her. Me, not you. Pronouns get a heavy workout, and as such, they become part of our hardwiring. To mess with our pronouns is to mess with us . But many of today's hot-button controversies are nonsense. The singular they has been with us since the 1400s and appears in Shakespeare's works. In fact, many of the supposedly iron-clad rules of grammar are up for debate ( Billy and me went to the store is perfectly logical!), and with tasty trivia, unexpected twists, and the weird quirks of early and contemporary English, John McWhorter guides readers on a journey of how our whole collection of these little words emerged and has changed over time.
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PE1261.M39 2025
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