Книга: Bryan A. Garner «The Oxford Dictionary of Usage and Style»
Серия: "-" What's the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What's the correct pronunciation of concierge? Or schism? Or flaccid? In this book of crisp, precise, and often witty pronouncements on modern American English, Bryan Garner decisively answers these and thousands of other questions that bedevil those who care about the language. Garner draws on massive evidence to support his judgments, citing thousands of examples - good, bad, and ugly - from sources such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. No one can browse through the book without sharing the authors spirited awareness of how words work and his relish for exposing the affectations that bloat our language. And even if you don't have the time for browsing, but simply want a quick answer to an editorial riddle, this book is your best bet. Издательство: "Oxford University Press" (2000)
ISBN: 978-0-19-513508-4 |
Bryan A. Garner
Bryan A. Garner (born
Biography
Garner attended Canyon High School in
Career
At the University of Texas School of Law in 1981, Garner began noticing odd usages in the lawbooks--many of them dating back to Shakespeare--and he decided to include them in his first real book, "A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage". That book was published by Oxford University Press in 1987. In 1991, Garner founded LawProse, Inc., a Dallas company that provides seminars on writing for lawyers and judges throughout the United States. The company offers seminars called Advanced Legal Writing & Editing, Advanced Legal Drafting, The Winning Brief, and Advanced Judicial Writing. Like much of Garner's work, the seminars aim to increase the clarity of legal and judicial writing.
On July 8, 2001,
Undoubtedly the most obscure contribution that Garner has made to American law is in the field of procedural rules. In 1992, he revised all amendments to the various sets of Federal Rules--Civil, Appellate, Evidence, Bankruptcy, and Criminal--by the United States Judicial Conference. In the early 1990s, he restyled the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which were adopted by the Judicial Conference, adopted by the United States Supreme Court, and enacted by Congress. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were restyled in 1993-1994 and adopted on December 1, 2007. Garner has revised the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, the California Rules of Appellate Procedure, the California Judicial Council Rules, the Local Rules of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and most recently the Rules on Judicial-Conduct and Disability Proceedings (for federal courts).
Since 2006, Garner has interspersed in his lectures numerous video clips from the many dozens of judges he has interviewed on the art of writing and on advocacy. In 2006-2007, he interviewed eight of the nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court. These interviews are accessible in full at
English Grammar and Usage
Garner is also a grammarian and has written books on general English usage, including "
elected Bibliography
Articles about Garner
*David Foster Wallace, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage", Harper's Magazine, April 2001, pp. 39-58; repr. more fully in Wallace's book Consider the Lobster (2005).
*"Editor's Column: Bryan Garner Counsels Appellate Lawyers and Judges on Effective Legal Writing" (interview by Dorothy Easner), The Record, Winter 2005, pp. 20–22.
*Johnston, Bar Leader, July-Aug. 1991, pp. 24–25, 27.
*Brett Campbell, "Songs in the Key of Law", Barrister, 22 Sept. 1989, pp. 14ff.
*Horne, The American Lawyer, Dec. 1988, p. 102.
*High Profiles, Dallas Morning News, 16 Dec. 1987, p. H1.
*Laura Mansnerus, "Lawyer Talk? You Could Look It Up", The New York Times, 11 Dec. 1987, at B8.
ee also
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External links
*Listen to a two-hour interview [http://www.kera.org/radio/talkshow/ProgramDetails.lasso?&id=4404&program=talkshow&show=The%20Talk%20Show] with Garner on KERA 90.1. You can download the mp3 podcast of the interview here: [http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/1118894 Hour 1] and [http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/1118893 Hour 2] .
* [http://www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tlr/alumni/bios/garner Biography at the Texas Law Review]
* [http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/courtrv/cr38-2/CR38-2Garner.pdf "Clearing the Cobwebs on Judicial Opinions", from the Summer 2001 issue of Court Review 21]
References
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