作者:
[英]
David Crystal 出版社: St. Martin's Press 副标题: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation 出版年: 2015-10-6 页数: 400 定价: USD 24.99 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250060419
Ernest Gowers:
The correct use of the comma—if there is such a thing as "correct" use—can only be acquired by common sense, observation, and taste. (查看原文)
...but punctuation conventions are rarely a matter of logic. For more often, it comes down to pragmatic considerations of tradition, identity, and taste. And whichever set of practices you use, there is a further pragmatic rule: be consistent. (查看原文)
很少见有专门讲英语标点符号的书，而且是为普通读者而写的英语读物。正如这本书的副标题所言，“The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation”——挑剔的英语符号的故事，这本书非常适合想要了解英语标点符号的读者。它不是那种专业的语言学大作，是有趣生动的知识小书。作者...
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哈泽维尔
2 有用 壞人 2015-11-19 06:26:50
難得有一本專門講標點符號的書，而又不那麼枯燥。尤其難為可貴的是，作為英國作者，也知道正確的英語是什麼樣的。