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    How Language Works

    David Crystal

    Answering questions about the nuts and bolts of language, this is a survey of nearly everything from how sounds become speech to how names work. Along the way we find…

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    Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories

    David Crystal

    This book tells the fascinating stories behind 100 everyday words that have been influenced by writing, reading and publishing books.

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    A Little Book of Language

    David Crystal

    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…

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    Everyday Shakespeare

    Ben Crystal, David Crystal

    A daily dose of eloquence and reflection. Let yourself be nourished with everyday lines from the Bard.

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    Language Death

    David Crystal

    The endangerment and death of minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern. A leading commentator on language issues, David Crystal asks the question, ‘why is language…

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    Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Original Motion Picture Adaptation

    David Anthony Kraft

    The first adaptation of the cult classic dark fantasy film returns to print in a premium hardcover for the first time!

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    Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Original Motion Picture Adaptation

    David Anthony Kraft

    The first adaptation of the cult classic dark fantasy film returns to print in a premium softcover for the first time!

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    A Date with Language

    David Crystal

    A collection of 366 witty and fascinating facts, events and stories about language, for every day of the year (with one extra for leap years).

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    A Little Book of Language

    David Crystal

    From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, this book reveals language’s myriad intricacies and quirks. It sheds light on the development of…

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    The Dictionary of Language

    David Crystal

    This dictionary includes descriptions of hundreds oflanguages from A to Z and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, as well as explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and…

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    The Stories of English

    David Crystal

    The groundbreaking history of the English language, fusing chronological with anecdotal and etymological accounts of individual word-histories, to create not one story, but many stories.

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    Language Play

    David Crystal

    In this text, 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…

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    The Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words

    David Crystal

    A beautiful gift book that collects together brilliantly quirky English dialect words, before they disappear for ever.

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    We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch

    David Crystal

    David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our Victorian predecessors thought about the subject, as revealed in the pages of the satirical…

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    That’s the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of ‘Punch

    David Crystal

    The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored…

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    Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide

    David Crystal

    In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller, Language and the Internet and takes things one step further. This book presents the…

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    Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide

    David Crystal

    In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller, Language and the Internet and takes things one step further. This book presents the…

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    Just A Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language

    David Crystal

    An autobiography and an introduction to the field of linguistics. It offers us a look behind the scenes at the adventures, rewards, challenges and pitfalls of his life in language…

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    Just A Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language

    David Crystal

    An autobiography and an introduction to the field of linguistics. It offers us a look behind the scenes at the adventures, rewards, challenges and pitfalls of his life in language…

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    Clinical Linguistics

    David Crystal

    Therefore, the series will provide an authoritative source of up-to-date scientific and clinical informa tion relating to the whole field of normal and abnormal speech communication, and as such will…

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    The Story of English in 100 Words

    David Crystal

    An eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages.

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    English as a Global Language

    David Crystal

    Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this is a book written by an expert both for specialists in the subject and for general readers interested in the English language.

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    Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language

    David Crystal

    So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare’s language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences.

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    Making Sense of Grammar

    David Crystal

    This is the ideal companion to Rediscover Grammar - which bridges the gap between understanding language structure and analysing it in different contexts. An invaluable resource for teachers and students…

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    Let’s Talk

    David Crystal

    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…

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    Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language

    David Crystal

    For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare’s life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest into aspects of his language. David Crystal provides…

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    Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

    David Crystal

    The newest volume in David Crystal’s pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.

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    Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar

    David Crystal

    The world’s best-known authority on the English language reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar.

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    How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die

    David Crystal

    Crystal offers general readers a personal tour of the intricate workings of language in this work of unprecedented scope. He discusses the power of language by looking at its origins…

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    The Story of Be: A Verb’s-Eye View of the English Language

    David Crystal

    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…

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    Words Words Words

    David Crystal

    Words, Words, Words is a celebration of what we say and how we say it. It invites us to engage linguistically with who we are: to understand what words tell…

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    Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling

    David Crystal

    A unique journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities.

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    Listen to Your Child: A Parent’s Guide to Children’s Language

    David Crystal

    Learning to talk is probably the greatest milestone in a child’s development, a deeply moving and often hilarious experience for all parents. It is also a process which has been…

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    How Language Works

    David Crystal

    Features a survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work. This work also talks about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak…

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    Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation

    David Crystal

    The triumphant third volume in David Crystal’s classic series on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide to how to use it -…

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    A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics

    David Crystal

    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…

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    The Language Revolution

    David Crystal

    The author has written separate books on the three separate trends involved in the language revolution. He brings them together into a single argument.

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    Profiling Linguistic Disability

    David Crystal

    Profiling has been acknowledged as a major contribution to the treatment of language disorder. Profiling is extended in this book to cover segmental phonology, prosody and semantics. Also included is…

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    Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment

    David Crystal

    For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare’s Globe presented their production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian pronunciation, the first such attempt in over 50 years. In an unusual…

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    The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works

    David Crystal

    A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power

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    Rediscover Grammar Third edition

    David Crystal

    The best-selling grammar reference - essential for all teachers and students of English. It provides an effortless tour through the structures and terminology of the English Language

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    By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English

    David Crystal

    A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English…

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    The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language

    David Crystal

    Provides a survey of the English language in its various forms. This book describes the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and provides a history…

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    The Stories of English

    David Crystal

    This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang…

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    La muerte de las lenguas

    David Crystal

    La muerte de ls lenguas es real. ?Importa?, ?Deberia importarnos? Este libro responde afirmativmente a ambas preguntas. El objectivo es establecer los hechos y, despues, explicarlos: ?que es exactamente la…

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    How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die

    David Crystal (University of Reading)

    Whether looking at the whistle languages of the Canary Islands or describing the layout of the human throat, this landmark book will enrich the lives of everyone who reads it.

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    Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English

    David Crystal (University of Reading)

    David Crystal OBE provides the reader with a thorough and fascinating analysis of the patterns of intonation and prosody found within the English language. He begins by contextualising his work…

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