The Five Clocks: A Linguistic Excursion Into the Five Styles of English Usage

By Martin Joos

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156313804
• ISBN13: 9780156313803
• Release Date: April 1967
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A linguistic excursion...

This book is an example of how to write a text explaining English usage. It is short; it is humorous; it is to the point. It doesn't attempt to recover old ground but susinctly describes the 5 clocks, or registers, or levels, or what have you, that we, as speakers of the English language, use on a regualr basis. Miss Fidditch would be proud. I first encountered Mr. Joos's book as a text for an undergraduate studies linguistics class. It's held a place of honor on my well used bookshelf ever since.