Authors:David Crystal, Hilary Crystal,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: words, languages, quotations, language
Number of Pages: 587
Published: 2000-10-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226122018
ISBN-13: 9780226122014

From Homer ("winged words") to Robert Burns ("Beware a tongue that’s smoothly hung") to Rudyard Kipling ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind"), writers from all over the world have put pen to paper on the inexhaustible topic of language. Yet surprisingly, their writings on the subject have never been gathered in a single volume. In Words on Words, David and Hilary Crystal have collected nearly 5,000 quotations about language and all its intriguing aspects: speaking, reading, writing, translation, verbosity, usage, slang, and more. As the stock-in-trade of so man

Authors:David Crystal, Ben Crystal,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: companion, language, glossary, words, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 676
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0140291172
ISBN-13: 9780140291179

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare’s language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare’s plays and on the facing page is a unique diagrammatic representation of the relationships within each play.

Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: death, language
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-06-26
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0521653215
ISBN-13: 9780521653213

The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6000 or so languages in the world are ’safe’ from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular writer on language issues, David Crystal asks the fundamental question, ’Why is language death so important?’, reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is b

Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: library, language, phonetics, linguistics, dictionary
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2003-02-07
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0631226648
ISBN-13: 9780631226642

Completely revised and updated in its fifth edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics is the standard single-volume reference for its field.Incorporates new words or senses that have developed in linguistics during the past 5 years, based on recommendations from a team of experts. Includes increased coverage of terms arising from recent theoretical formalizations. Contains a separate table of abbreviations and table of symbols at the end of the book. Remains the standard single-volume reference for the field of linguistics and phonetics. Fifth edition now includes more than 5,000 term

Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: library, language, phonetics, linguistics, dictionary
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1405152966
ISBN-13: 9781405152969

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 edition, it has been revised and updated to reflect the latest terms in the field.Includes in excess of 5,100 terms, grouped into over 3,000 entries Coverage reflects recommendations by a team of experts in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, making it exceptionally comprehensive Incorporates new ideas stemming from the minimalist program Contains a separate table of abbreviations and table of symbo

Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: language, english, encyclopedia, cambridge
Number of Pages: 506
Published: 2003-08-04
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0521530334
ISBN-13: 9780521530330

Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. This Second Edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language has been fully revised for a new generation of language-lovers. The book is longer and includes extensive new material on world English and Internet English, in addition to completely updated statistics, further reading suggestions and other references. First Edition Hb (1995): 0-521-40179-8 First Edition Pb (1997): 0-521-59655-6 David Crystal is a leading authority on language, and author of man

Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: english, stories
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2005-09-06
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1585677191
ISBN-13: 9781585677191

When and why did ’thou’ disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said ’observation’ or ’hobservation’? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote ’Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon’? This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.