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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 through words: the very building blocks of our communication.
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of ...
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
The authors also review legal and ethical issues and show clinicians and caregivers how to mobilize community resources. The book concludes with 11 assessment guides and rating scales and an index.
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
How has the fighting over English usage come about?" "David Crystal charts the clashes from Anglo-Saxon times via the language of Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson to our own time of texting and the greengrocer's apostrophe.
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
The plan of the book is ingenious, the writing lively, the exposition clear, and the scholarly standard uncompromisingly high.” —J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
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 about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way.
inauthor:"David Crystal" from books.google.com
Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do. Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity.