B.
In the book Verbal Hygiene, Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language. She examines
the practices ___21___ people attempt to regulate language use. Instead of dismissing the practice of “verbal hygiene” as a
misguided and ___22___ exercise, she argues that popular discourse about language values, good and bad, right and wrong,
serves an important function for those engaged in it.
The book consists of a series of case studies dealing with specific ___23___ of verbal hygiene: the regulation of “style”
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by editors, the teaching of English grammar in schools, and the movements for and against so-called “politically-correct”
language. In each case she argues that verbal hygiene provides a way of ___24___ linguistic phenomena, and that it represents
a symbolic attempt to impose order on the social world. ___25___ to linguists, professional language-users of all kinds, and to
anyone interested in language and culture, Verbal Hygiene calls for legitimate concerns about language and value to be
discussed, by experts and lay-speakers alike, in a rational and critical spirit.
【題組】22. (A) pernicious (B) conducive (C) congenital (D) moribund
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