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This Oxford Companion offers thirty-five hundred entries on topics such as writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. It includes a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, an index of people appearing in entries, and biographies of influential figures like Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Education & Language/Linguistics
Authors: Tom McArthur
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