[English 03] • Making a Point by Crystal, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Interlude: Silent reading

2. … was diversity 3. To point, or not to point? 4. No question: we need it

Interlude: Punctuation says it all

5. The first printer 6. A messy situation 7. Breath, blood, and spirits 8. Grammar rules

Interlude: A punctuation heavyweight

9. The printer’s dilemma

Interlude: Strong language

10. Passing the buck

Interlude: The Good Child’s Book of Stops

11. The way forward: meanings and effects

Interlude: Punctuation minimalism

12. Interfering with Jane Austen

Interlude: Another case: Emily Dickinson

13. Is there a punctuation system? 14. Starting at the top

Interlude: Learning about layout

15. Paragraph preferences 16. Periods, period. 17. Devilish dashes –

An interlude about the D---

18. Ellipsis dots or … 19. The value of nothing 20. Exclamation marks!!

Interlude: Inverting exclamation

21. Next, question marks?

Interlude: Concrete questions

22. Semicolons; or not

Interlude: Semicolonophilia

23. Colons: the chapter 24. Commas, the big picture 25. Commas, the small picture 26. Commas, the serial killer

Interlude: Pun-ctuation

27. Hy-phens

Interlude: Hyphen-treasures

28. Apostrophes: the past 29. Apostrophes: the present (and future) 30. Marks of inclusion (or exclusion): round brackets

Interlude: The poet of parentheses

31. Marks of inclusion: ‘quotation marks’

Interlude: A fashionable vulgarism

32. Graphics and italics 33. Punctuating the Internet

Interlude: Punctuation eccentricity

34. Pragmatic tolerance

Envoi: Gertrude Stein on punctuation

Appendix: Teaching punctuation References and further reading Illustration credits Index