Richard W. Bailey Livres
Richard Weld Bailey a été professeur de langue et littérature anglaises à l'Université du Michigan pendant 42 ans. Il a été un pionnier dans l'application des ordinateurs à la recherche en sciences humaines, marquant un changement significatif à l'intersection de la technologie et de l'érudition littéraire. Son dévouement au monde universitaire et à l'innovation dans les sciences humaines a laissé une empreinte durable. Le travail de Bailey a comblé le fossé entre les études littéraires traditionnelles et les méthodologies numériques émergentes.
Images of English was the first book to focus exclusively on opinions about the language as they have evolved through time. Through the use of abundant quotations, Richard Bailey lets voices from the past speak to our present assumptions and challenges the notion of English triumphalism throughout the world and the ages. The book offers a unique historical perspective on attitudes towards the language. We see that journalists who fill anxious columns on slow news-days with fulminations on linguistic deterioration are embellishing centuries of complaint; that women who campaign for a language free of patriarchy and suited to themselves express a yearning first conveyed long ago; that teachers who recommend the vigour of Anglo-Saxon words are sustaining an idea that emerged four hundred years ago in notions about racial purity.