What do a comic alphabet, a glorious lipogram and a wellerism have in common?Or, an audit of accountants, an illusion of magicians, and an intrusion of spammers?And do you know how Shakespeare pronounced his name?...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
A lively journey through the story of language, from an infants first word to the languages of the internet Language never leaves you alone. Its there in your head, helping you think. Its there to help you make relationshi...Lasīt vairāk
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 wo...Lasīt vairāk
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 lin...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jul-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198850694)
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 rev...Lasīt vairāk
This collection brings together language profiles of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) from 12 languages around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists in many countries an...Lasīt vairāk
How did Shakespeares plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? David Crystal recounts and reflects on Shakespeares Globes experiment with original pronunciation....Lasīt vairāk
The newest volume in David Crystals pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation Its not what you say, its the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about correct pronunciation in...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language Third edition
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Nov-2018, Paperback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108437738)
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Nov-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108423595)
An essential text for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts, its dual purpose as both a reference and textbook will appeal to English language lecturers and students as well as non-native English speakers. Audio resour...Lasīt vairāk
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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 enterta...Lasīt vairāk
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We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insigh...Lasīt vairāk
Have you ever cringed while hearing someone mispronounce a word—or, worse, been tripped up by a wily silent letter yourself? Consider yourself lucky that you do not live in Victorian England, when the way you pronounced a word was seen as...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780190660574)
In this book, 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 co...Lasīt vairāk
