The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide to Nondiscriminatory Language

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

Designed for anyone who works with words, this provides guidelines and a selection of 15,000 alternatives to help recognize bias in the English language, replace stereotypical language and improve communication skills. Also included is advice and background perspective on usage or word origin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897746533
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/26/1991
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

Rosalie Maggio has been a professional writer and editor for 25 years. She has edited for a college textbook, a university magazine, and trade publishers. She is the author of several books including The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (first published in 1987 by Oryx Press as The Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage.) and the popular book How to Say It. Ms. Maggio has won numerous book awards.

Editorial Reviews

Short and curt directives on the evils of English and their cures, including some rather far-fetched insults to everyone but young white, physically fit, Protestant males. Today's rules of political correctitude are as ephemeral as the flimsy paper covers they are bound in. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Whether you're a writer, a journalist, or just a humanist, this dictionary is essential for defining words that are potentially biased, racist, sexist, damaging, condescending or even outdated. Words can unknowingly do damage; this is an indispensible resource that passes along the new meanings of our ever-changing language so that we can communicate without offending.
—Ilene Rosoff

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