Rosemarie Ostler

Auteur de Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century

7 oeuvres 196 utilisateurs 6 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Rosemarie Ostler, a linguist and librarian, has written on this topic for The Saturday Evening Post, and her work has also appeared in The Futurist, Oregon Monthly, Whole Earth, and Writers' Journal. She lives in Oregon

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Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century (2003) 91 exemplaires

Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language (2015) 50 exemplaires

Let's Talk Turkey: The Stories Behind America's Favorite Expressions (2008) 22 exemplaires

Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of American Politics (2011) 13 exemplaires

Splendiferous Speech: How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English (2018) 9 exemplaires

The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (2023) 9 exemplaires

Theoretical syntax, 1980-1990 an annotated and classified bibliography (1992) 2 exemplaires

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Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieux de résidence: Eugene, Oregon, USA
Professions: librarian
linguist
Agent: Janet Rosen (Sheree Bykofsky Associates)
Courte biographie: Rosemarie Ostler, a linguist and former librarian, loves delving into the rich record of American slang and language use. Her most recent book, Founding Grammars, explores the power of grammar rules and the centuries-long debate over how Americans should talk. Previous books showcase the colorful language of America's past, including obsolete twentieth-century slang, the origins of our most common expressions, and the country's tradition of outrageous political invective. Rosemarie lives in Eugene, Oregon. [adapted from Amazon.com Author Page, retrieved 9/16/2015 and Founding Grammars (2015)]

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Splendiferous Speech: How Early Americans Pioneered… par Rosemarie Ostler

3.75

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Moshepit20 | May 28, 2024 |

The United States of English: The American Language… par Rosemarie Ostler

This book is arguably what I've wanted from most linguistics and etymology books: to just go through the origins of a bunch of words and to also explain how languages have changed.

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Moshepit20 | Nov 1, 2023 |

Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over… par Rosemarie Ostler

Solid history. I enjoyed it, although I can easily see that it won't hold interest for a lot of people. Speaking from the linguists' side, there are a few key points here that I really wish the rest of the country would get on board with.
(Hell yes that's sentence-final on purpose.)

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Kiramke | 3 autres critiques | Jun 27, 2023 |

Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over… par Rosemarie Ostler

This at times is a very entertaining and then it goes into very dry. There is no middle ground, sadly. But that said it was interesting to see where our language, as Americans, comes from and how it has grown. The notes were just for adding citation and did not really much more to the overall narrative. This is not just about how Americans write but also about how we educate ourselves and our children. Ostler takes something that could have been extremely dry and boring and makes a good effort to make it interesting and mostly readable. At times she gets into very detailed items about the how and it takes some time to get through those moments but in the end I think that it is a worthy read.

I give this book a Four out of Five stars.… (plus d'informations)

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lrainey | 3 autres critiques | May 4, 2016 |

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