LIVING LANGUAGE

About the Book

LIVING LANGUAGE is 25 essays on many aspects of a big subject. It is authoritative, by the long-time president of The American Society of Geolinguistics (ASG). ASG was founded in 1965 by Mario A. Pei for the study of language in action in the modern world as it affects culture, commerce, politics, personal and national identity, and indeed the whole macrosociolinguistic picture. ASG publishes the journal Geolinguistics and holds an annual international conference and it publishes the proceedings of participants from Europe, Asia, Australia, Central America, US, UK, etc. From those and other sources along with some brand new materials here is a variety of essays, presented in a familiar style, chiefly on American and British English but also English as the world’s second language, and more. This book is wide-ranging, wise, witty, opinionated, deeply researched, useful, & controversial.

About the Author

LEONARD R. N. ASHLEY, Ph.D. (Princeton), LHD (honoris causa, Columbia Theological) is professor emeritus of Brooklyn College of The City University of New York and the author of dozens of books on literature (history, criticism, critical biographies of George Peele 16th c., Colley Cibber 18th c., George Alfred Henty 19th c., and geolinguistics (Language in Modern Society and Language in Action), What’s in a Name? and five other books on onomastics (name study) from placenames to literature, popular culture and folklore (Elizabethan Folklore and with Ola J. Holten Nordic Folklore and Tradition), military history (The Air Defence of North America for NORAD and Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” Book of the Military), theology (Last Days) and 12 books on the occult published in the US and the UK with some in Dutch, German, and Italian translations, as well as many scholarly editions, textbooks, light verse, journal articles and 1000s of pages of book reviews in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, &c.