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A Date with Language
A collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year. In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events, and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets, and global institutions,...- $40.00
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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
Das Standardwerk bietet in seiner sechsten Auflage zahlreiche Aktualisierungen, die neue Entwicklungen innerhalb des Forschungsgebietes reflektieren. Zus tzliche Services sind ein Abk rzungs- und Symbolverzeichnis sowie das vollst ndige Internationale Phonetische Alphabet.Author: David CrystalISBN-10: 1405152974ISBN-13: 9781405152976Publisher: Wiley-BlackwellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2008Pages: 560Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.14lbsSize: 9.63h x...- $56.95
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A Little Book of Language
Now in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, a lively journey through the story of language With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency...- $17.00
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A Little Book of Language
A lively journey through the story of language, from an infant's first word to the languages of the internet Language never leaves you alone. It's there in your head, helping you think. It's there to help you make relationships - and to break them....- $15.00
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An Amazing Fish Story
"An Amazing Fish Story" by Dr. David CrystalThis is an amazing story of how a little fish uses his little brain to outsmart the big fish!Author: David CrystalISBN-10: 168498274XISBN-13: 9781684982745Publisher: Newman SpringsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2022Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.07d- $14.95
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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
"Let there be light," "A fly in the ointment," "New wine in old bottles," "How are the mighty fallen," "The salt of the earth." All these everyday phrases owe their popularity to the King James Bible. Indeed, it is said that this astonishing Bible...- $17.98
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Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories
Travel through time with words that have shaped the trajectory of the English language across centuries. The world of books has played a striking role in the history of English vocabulary. "Book" itself is one of the oldest words in the language, originating from...- $25.00
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Crystal's Curiosity Cabinet: An English Language Miscellany
Author: David CrystalISBN-10: 1399823892ISBN-13: 9781399823890Publisher: ChambersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2026Pages: 224Format: HardcoverSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.81d- $16.99
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David Crystal's 50 Questions about English Usage Pocket Editions
David Crystal provides concise, accessible answers to fifty questions about English language usage. In this compact, user-friendly book, David Crystal draws on his extensive knowledge and experience to answer questions from English language teachers and learners from around the world. The book covers topics...- $19.00
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English as a Global Language
David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has been deemed the most 'successful' language ever, with 1500 million speakers internationally, presenting a...- $18.99
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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything at all." Language is...- $24.00
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Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide
The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as...- $49.95
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Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide
The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as...- $140.00
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Investigating English Style
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 general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of...- $62.95
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Language and the Internet
In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting...- $49.99
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Language Death
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...- $19.99
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Language Play
Author: David CrystalISBN-10: 0226122050ISBN-13: 9780226122052Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2001Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.58d- $30.00
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Let's Talk: 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 conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we...- $26.99
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Let's Talk: 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 conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we...- $41.99
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Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" and "conjunction" now often confound children and adults alike. Explaining the...- $26.99
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Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" and "conjunction" now often confound children and adults alike. Explaining the...- $22.99
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Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical dictionary of all the words and meanings students of Shakespeare need to know. Every word has an example sentence selected from the twelve most studied plays including Macbeth,...- from $17.95
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Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment
How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days, Shakespeare's Globe presented a production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian pronunciation. In an unusual blend of autobiography,...- $22.99
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Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English
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, including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (1987) and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995, 2003). Here, he...- $46.99
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Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion
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...- $25.00
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Sounds Appealing: 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 Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us...- $15.95
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Systems of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features in English
No detailed description available for "Systems of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features in English".Author: David Crystal, Randolph QuirkISBN-10: 3112414977ISBN-13: 9783112414972Publisher: de Gruyter MoutonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1964Pages: 94Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d- $126.99
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That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of Punch
The vocabulary of the past is always intriguing, especially when it is no longer used in modern English. Many of the words and phrases that were popular in Victorian England may sound foreign today, but looking to original sources and texts can yield fascinating...- $25.00
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study which have taken place since the mid 1990s. Two main new areas have been added: the rise of electronic communication in all its current forms...- $59.99
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts...- $46.99
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The Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words
A beautiful gift book that collects together brilliantly quirky English dialect words, before they disappear for everAuthor: David CrystalISBN-10: 1509801766ISBN-13: 9781509801763Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2016Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.80d- $17.99
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The Gift of the Gab Lib/E: How Eloquence Works
Author: David CrystalISBN-10: 1665237899ISBN-13: 9781665237895Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 6.10h x 6.70w x 0.70d- $64.99
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The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works
A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This...- $16.00
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The Language Revolution: Sex and Violence
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 evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal, one of the world's...- $20.75
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The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronuniciation (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed using IPA, and the accompanying website hosts sound files...- $41.99
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The Stories of English
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 language truly lies: in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the globe.Author: David CrystalISBN-10: 1585677191ISBN-13:...- $18.95
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The Story of Be: 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 English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language....- $20.99
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The Story of English in 100 Words
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written...- $24.95
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Think on my Words
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's...- $19.99
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