Alphabet to Email

How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

By: Naomi S. Baron

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Paperback | 26 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality.
Drawing together strands of thinking about writing, speech, pedagogy, technology, and globalization, Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English.
Alphabet to Email will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going.

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'Naomi Baron has succeeded in writing a fascinating yet erudite, and quite compact, history that draws together threads from a bewildering variety of sources.' - Pam Le Gassick, Society of Indexers

'At one level, Alphabet to Email is a fascinating chronological history of written English; at another, it is a carefully argued case for preserving the distinctions between oral and written language.' - Ilana Snyder, Journal of Sociolinguistics

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List of Figures	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Robin Hood's Retort	p. 1
Legitimating Written English	p. 26
Who Writes, Who Reads, and Why	p. 48
Setting Standards	p. 95
The Rise of English Comp	p. 143
Commas and Canaries	p. 167
What Remington Wrought	p. 197
Language at a Distance	p. 216
Why the Jury's Still Out on Email	p. 247
Epilogue: Destiny or Choice	p. 260
Notes	p. 270
Bibliography	p. 285
Name Index	p. 305
Subject Index	p. 311
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