Author: Publisher: Firebelle Productions
ISBN: 0965151662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Crimes Against the English Language
Author: Publisher: Firebelle Productions
ISBN: 0965151662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Wretched Writing
Author: Kathryn PetrasPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101624973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It’s also very funny. A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled clichés, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres. Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.
Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons
Author: Persephone BrahamPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452906256
Category : Cuban fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Speech, Crime, and the Uses of Language
Author: Kent GreenawaltPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195077113
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this book Greenawalt explores the three-way relationship between the idea of freedom of speech, the law of crimes, and the many uses of language. He begins by considering free speech as a political principle, and after a thorough and incisive analysis of the justifications commonly advanced for freedom of speech, looks at the kinds of communications to which the principle of free speech applies. He then turns to an examination of communications for which criminal liability is fixed. Focusing on threats and solicitations to crime, Greenawalt attempts to determine whether liability for such communications seriously conflicts with freedom of speech. In the second half of the book he goes on to develop the significance of his conclusions for American constitutional law, addressing such questions as what should be considered "speech" within the meaning of the First Amendment, and what tests the courts should employ in deciding whether particular criminal statutes should be held constitutional. He concludes that the issues are too complex to yield simple solutions, and insists that the protection of the First Amendment can be reduced neither to one justification nor to one all-purpose test of coverage.
The Language of Sexual Crime
Author: J. CotterillPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230592783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Language of Sexual Crime explores the role of language in the construction of identity of both perpetrators and victims of sexual violence, the ways in which language is used in the detection of sexually-motivated crime, and the articulation/manipulation of language in police interviews, the courtroom and the media.
Wretched Writing
Author: Kathryn PetrasPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101624975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It’s also very funny. A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled clichés, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres. Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.
Speaking of Crime
Author: Lawrence M. SolanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226767876
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Why do so many people voluntarily consent to searches by have the police search their person or vehicle when they know that they are carrying contraband or evidence of illegal activity? Does everyone understand the Miranda warning? How well can people recognize a voice on tape? Can linguistic experts identify who wrote an anonymous threatening letter? Speaking of Crime answers these questions and examines the complex role of language within our criminal justice system. Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma compile numerous cases, ranging from the Lindbergh kidnapping to the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton to the JonBenét Ramsey case, that provide real-life examples of how language functions in arrests, investigations, interrogations, confessions, and trials. In a clear and accessible style, Solan and Tiersma show how recent advances in the study of language can aid in understanding how legal problems arise and how they might be solved. With compelling discussions current issues and controversies, this book is a provocative state-of-the-art survey that will be of enormous value to legal scholars and professionals throughout the criminal justice system.
A Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Francis Andrew MarchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language
Author: John OgilviePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Biography of the English Language
Author: Arthur MacArthurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description