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The first popular examination of language on the Internet by a leading authority....
A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death....
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had...
Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties th...
The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britai...
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By David Crystal and Derek Davy
The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation
This 'engaging history of punctuation' (Wall Street Journal) is not only the first history of its kind, but a complete guide on how to use English pun...
No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz t...
My Life in Language
A cross between an autobiography and an introductory to linguistics which will serve multiple purposes and appeal to both students and the general rea...
A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the gen...
How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
"Angst over the apostrophe and hysteria over hyphens: the English language has become a combat zone. Why are people so passionate about language? How ...
This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend m...
In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make ...
How English Conversation Works
Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through co...
David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth...
Crystal turns the history of the language on its head and provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the...
How Eloquence Works
We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent bo...
This is a completely revised and updated edition of the Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The new edition adds around 300 new words or senses w...
The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
In this book, David Crystal confronts the foe of many : grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disap...
The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
The fascinating and surprising history of English spelling from David Crystal, everyone's favorite expert logophile With The Story of English in 100 W...
The King James Bible and the English Language
What do the following have in common? Let there be light -- A fly in the ointment -- A rod of iron -- New wine in old bottles -- Lick the dust -- How ...
We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evoluti...
This book was first published in 1969. Its author, David Crystal OBE, has since written some of the most important books on language and linguistics, ...
Presents a range of terms associated with the field of linguistics. It concentrates on terms which cut across subject boundaries and which are central...
David Crystal, one of the worldโs leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. In this anthology of global proverbs Crystal ...
This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of "Disorders of Human Communication". Each monograph deals in detai...
Exploring Shakespeare's Language
So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language, making his plays eas...
A Student Guide
In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller, Language and the Inter...
In this guide to linguistic concepts and names, linguistic does not mean the technical terminology of linguistic sciences, but language in a more ever...
Esta obra se investiga la naturaleza del impacto que internet esta teniendo sobre el lenguaje. Crystal plantea que internet esta haciendo posible una ...
A Book About Accents
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And- -wait a second, no one says po...
Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be prepared to learn words you have ne...
How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? David ...
Presents more than five thousand terms in over three thousand entries, including new words and senses that have developed in the past five years....
A Verb's-eye View of the English Language
It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: to be. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other Engl...
A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a locati...
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has ne...
The English-language Tourist's Guide to Britain
Who formed and shaped the English language? David and Hilary Crystal take us on a journey through Britain to discover the people who gave our language...