The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg \'s brilliant new journey across the landscape of American Language evoke exactly the tenor of our times.
Nunberg lives in San Francisco..
His previous books include Talking Right and Going Nucular .
He is the emeritus chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary and a winner of the Linguistic Society of America\'s Language and the Public Interest Award.
Since 1987, he has done a Language feature on NPR\'s Fresh Air , and his commentaries have appeared in the New York Times and many other publications.
About author(s): Geoffrey Nunberg , a linguist, is a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information.
Nunberg has dazzling receptors, perfect acoustics and a deftly elegant style to relay his wit and wisdom.
If you know how to listen for them.
It exemplifies the message of the book: that in the smallest ticks and cues of Language the most important issue and thoughts of our Times can be heard and understood.
Nunberg\'s analysis is as succinct a summary of the questions that hover over the administration\'s strategy as any political insider\'s.
Going Nucular, the title piece, is more than a bit of fun at the President\'s expense.
At the heart of the entertainment and linguistic slapstick that Nunberg delights in are the core concerns that have occupied American minds.
Nunberg hears the shifting use of Gallic as we suddenly find ourselves in bitter opposition to the French; perhaps only Nunberg could compare America the Beautiful with a Syrian national anthem that contains the line A land resplendent with brilliant suns...almost like a sky centipede.
He pronounces that: \'Blog\' is a syllable whose time has come, and that You don\'t get to be a verb unless you\'re doing something right, with which he launches into the effect of Google on our collective consciousness.
Nunberg has a wonderful ear for the new, the comic and the absurd.
The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg \'s brilliant new journey across the landscape of American Language evoke exactly the tenor of our times
