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Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times

Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times Paperback - 2005

by Nunberg, Geoffrey

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In his feisty and humorous essays, Nunberg cracks the codes embedded in many familiar terms used in media, business, technology, and politics to reveal unexpected insights about America's fractious society.

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We're all attuned to the word games that other people try to play on us-what we have to watch out for are the ones we play on ourselves.

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  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 100

About the author

Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist, is a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. 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. 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. His previous books include Talking Right and Going Nucular. Nunberg lives in San Francisco.