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David Crystal is one of the world's foremost authorities on language. He is author of the hugely successful The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Cambridge, 1987; 3rd edition 2010), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995; 3rd edition 2018), English as a Global Language (1997; 2nd edition 2003) and Language and the Internet (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2006). An internationally renowned writer, journal editor, lecturer, and broadcaster, he received an OBE in 1995 for his services
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Téléchargez le livre :  A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics

David Crystal , Alan C. L. Yu


Wiley-Blackwell

2023-09-19

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The fully updated new edition of the essential single-volume reference, covering the full fields of linguistics and phonetics Now in its seventh edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics remains the definitive resource work for students of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Everyday Shakespeare
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Editeur : Chambers
Parution : 2023-05-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Let's Talk
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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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-07-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Story of Be
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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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-04-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Story of Be
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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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-04-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
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This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-03-24

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
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This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-03-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Words in Time and Place
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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 never heard before, find out fascinating facts behind everyday words, and be surprised at how lively and varied the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-09-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Words in Time and Place
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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 never heard before, find out fascinating facts behind everyday words, and be surprised at how lively and varied the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-09-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Wordsmiths and Warriors
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Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character. The book relates a...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-09-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Introduction to Language Pathology
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This new edition includes the introduction of the WHO distinctions between impairment, disability and handicap; an increased focus on information processing approaches to language disorders, and the introduction of revision questions as well as tutorial activities at...

Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2013-07-12

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Télécharger le livre :  The Language Revolution
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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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08
Collection : Themes for the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  From International to Local English – And Back Again
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All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this relationship between language and culture, considering issues related to the processes of...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Begat
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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 are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels They are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Begat
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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 are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels They are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
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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 much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-07-09

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Télécharger le livre :  A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
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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,...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-01-22
Collection : The Language Library
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Télécharger le livre :  Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
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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 much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-07-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Words Words Words
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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. Language has no life of its own: it only exists in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-04-26

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Télécharger le livre :  How Language Works
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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. Along the way we find out about eyebrow...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-03-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fight for English
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Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-09-07

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