The English language stretches around the world - from Australia to Zimbabwe over 300 ... more
million people speak it as their mother tongue alone. And yet despite its astonishingly widespread use as a medium of communication every profession and every prov...
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How Language Pundits Ate, Shot and Left. The story of a thousand years of argument about ... more
'correct' English. An original and authoritative counter-argument to the idea of 'zero tolerance' in language, this is a world-renowned expert's personal view on the language debate.
This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English ... more
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.
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DavidCrystal has risen to become one of the world's leading authorities on language. A former professor of Linguistics at the University of Reading, he has written and edited a number of language-related books, including "The EnglishLanguage", "English as a Global Language" and "Discover Grammar".
The version that I received is the second edition of this highly successful book - a second edition being necessary because of the amount of new research undertaken into language and linguistics, changing political boundaries, and differences from year to year in the number of speakers of a language and geographical distribution of languages. It currently retails at £15.37 on Amazon, a reduction from the RRP of £21.95, and being 488 pages long you definitely get your money's worth!
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DavidCrystal, the author of Words, Words, Words, is an academic. But he is much, much more than being "just" an academic. DavidCrystal loves language and words. And this approach shines through this book.
In Words, Words, Words, DavidCrystal makes it crystal clear (no pun intended) why he believes that words matter to each and every one of us very much indeed. And the book is very easy to read, to understand and to use.
He looks at all types of words. The familiar words that we all know. Less familiar words that perhaps we should know, older words, newer words.
He points out that some people who put themselves forward as protectors of the Englishlanguage are often no more than pedants. Or even worse! He even shows that some of them are just plain wrong.
He quotes an example of a friend who thought that the increasing use ...
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This is a workbook intended for students studying for AQA GCSE EnglishLanguage, Specification A. Although forming part of the Language syllabus, this is in fact a collection of poems from the AQA Anthology. They are all poems from different cultures or traditions and most are written by non-native speakers; some of the poems, such as 'Half-Caste', feature non-standard English. In total there are sixteen poems, and they are divided into Cluster 1 and Cluster 2, eight poems each. Poems by Imtiaz Dharker and Grace Nichols are featured in both clusters, whilst Cluster 1 also includes poems by Chinua Achebe, Nissim Ezekiel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edward Brathwaite, Tatamkhulu Afrika and Denise Levertove. Cluster 2 additionally has poems by Sujata Bhatt, Tom Leonard, John Agard, Moniza Alvi, Niyi Osundare and Derek Walcott. In the exam ...
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EAN
9780141003962
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Language & Linguistics
Subgenre
English
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Title
The English Language
Author
David Crystal
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The English language stretches around the world - from Australia to Zimbabwe over 300 million people speak it as their mother tongue alone. And yet despite its astonishingly widespread use as a medium of communication every profession and every province - indeed every individual person - uses a slightly different variant. In this guided tour David Crystal describes the common structures that unify the language and outlines the major variations that separate the English of Britain America Ireland Australia the Caribbean and other parts of the world. He explores the dialects" of chemists and the clergy lawyers and truckers poets and punsters and offers a survey of how our language developed from Caedmon to computerese."
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