- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407008431
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
The Prodigal Tongue
Dispatches from the Future of English
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407008431
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
[A] fascinating account of developing English.
The Times
[A] witty and well-documented treatise on the ways -- some of them alarming -- in which the English language is changing
Winnipeg Free Press
As a poet, journalist, editor, intrepid traveller, scholar and endlessly curious spirit, Abley brings an appropriately eclectic perspective to the subject. ... Writing as an inquisitive, bemused Everyman, Abley leads us on a lively intellectual journey through uncharted territory, his comfort in the zone of ambiguity making him the ideal travel guide
The Gazette
Attuned to pop culture as well as to scholarship, Abley proves a deft social anthropologist
The Daily Telegraph
In The Prodigal Tongue, Mark Abley investigates the deep flux in contemporary English... Attuned to pop culture as well as to scholarship...it stylishly covers a large amount of ground, from Lee Kuan Yew to YouTube, via Spike Lee and Ice Cube... Joyous - a paean to the dynamic energies of English.
Telegraph
The Prodigal Tongue takes the reader on an informative and frequently entertaining journey.
Edmonton Journal
Well written . . . provocative
The New York Times