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As They Say in Zanzibarby David CrystalISBN 0007240988 (0-00-724098-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As They Say in Zanzibar'Book summary:David Crystal, one of the world's leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. A new anthology of global proverbs has not been compiled for over 70 years. Crystal brings his customary commercial eye and linguistic expertise to this wonderfully rich topic. Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather, proverbial wisdom is a key factor in understanding different peoples and cultures. Here David Crystal, the world's leading commentator on language, takes us on a global tour of the world's proverbs. Whether you are in Andorra, China or Tierra del Fuego, there is a nugget of local wisdom to inform and entertain. Some proverbs to entertain: When two elephants struggle, it is the grass which suffers (Zanzibar); One must chew according to one's teeth (Norway); Admiration is the daughter of ignorance (Spain); A blind man needs no looking glass (Scotland); Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot (Ireland); Don't call the alligator a big-mouth till you have crossed the river (Belize); An untouched drum does not speak (Liberia); and Do not try to borrow combs from shaven monks (China). [via]
By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of Englishby David CrystalISBN 0007255020 (0-00-725502-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Directions in Applied Linguisticsby David CrystalISBN 0121984206 (0-12-198420-6)
Hardcover, Academic Press
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An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languagesby David CrystalISBN 0140512349 (0-14-051234-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages'Book summary:A large number of terms to do with language crop up in day-to-day speech - but what do they all actually mean? The aim of this book is to provide a guide to linguistic concepts and names. Terms are drawn from the various applied areas of language study, such as language teaching, speech pathology, stylistics, typography and lexicography, as well as from grammar, figures of speech and basic phonetics. With nearly 3000 main entries, this dictionary aims to answer all the questions people are likely to ask about language and its meaning. A selection of cartoons and illustrations reinforces the author's conviction that language study can be fun. [via]
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The English Languageby David CrystalISBN 0140135324 (0-14-013532-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Language'Book summary:A collection of statements by literary men and others about the nature and use of the language, its resources, potentialities and development. Volume I covered the period 1490-1839. Volume II starts in 1858 and runs to the 1960s and therefore records the rise first of philology, then of modern linguistic study. Accordingly this volume contains a number of excerpts from the writings of great European and American language-scholars (Sweet, Sapir and Bloomfield among others) as well as by important writers. The volume provides a readable and often entertaining introduction to thought about English, and language generally, during the period and also illustrates the overall development of attitudes. The editors provide an introduction and study questions for those readers who use the book for formal class-study. Distinctive features of the original writings are preserved as examples of variety of style, spelling, punctuation and general presentation. Footnotes explain difficulties. [via]
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The English Languageby W. F. Bolton, David CrystalISBN 0140177604 (0-14-017760-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Language'Book summary:This volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" is devoted to its medium, the English language. A first section considers present-day English, its sounds, grammar, vocabulary and stylistic varieties. A second section describes the growth of the language over the centuries and concludes with chapters on the social context of English-language studies and the role of English in the modern world. While each essay stands complete in itself, the book is designed to provide a grounding in the modern language through which to explore past developments. It constitutes an introduction to the subject, and full biographies point the way to further investigation. "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature in ten volumes. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned for the series, which, taken together, cover 14 centuries of literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the present. [via]
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Eric Partridge in His Own Wordsby Eric Partridge, David CrystalISBN 0025289608 (0-02-528960-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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How Language Works : How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Dieby David CrystalISBN 0140515380 (0-14-051538-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Language Playby David Crystal , Ed McLachlanISBN 0140273859 (0-14-027385-9)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Play'Book summary:Language play takes different forms for different people. Some people groove on crossword puzzles; others gravitate toward Scrabble. Still others like to rap, tell jokes, speak in puns, or recite Monty Python skits verbatim. What they all have in common--what we all have in common, says linguist David Crystal--is a love of language play. "The phenomenon of language play," he writes, "seems to cut across regional, social and professional background, age, sex, ethnicity, personality, intelligence and culture." As it turns out, little research has been done on the subject. Language exists, it is usually thought, to communicate ideas. Crystal argues that "it is difficult to see how ping-pong punning can possibly fit in with [this] view."
In Language Play, Crystal explores the various ways in which people play with language. He outlines the professions--including advertising, headline writing, and comedy--that rely on language play. He talks about the importance of play in language development, even for the infants. And he argues that the printed matter used in schools (he lives in the U.K., by the way) sorely needs updating to reflect children's interest in rhyme, nonsense, pattern, new words, and the like. Examples new and old (from the 1800s) demonstrate the ways in which language can entertain. But language play is more than just entertaining, the author says; "it brings people into rapport with each other." In fact, he says, "disaffection with someone's language play is ... a sign that a relationship is on the way to breaking down." Think about it: "When you get annoyed by someone's silly voices, find their mock regional accents extremely irritating, or their favourite word game pointless and boring, then all is definitely not well." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Linguisticsby David CrystalISBN 0140135316 (0-14-013531-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linguistics'Book summary:places modern linguistics in historical perspective & traces in the present century six ages in its development [via]
Listen to Yor Child: A Parent's Guide to Children's Languageby David CrystalISBN 0140110151 (0-14-011015-1)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Penguin Dictionary of Languageby David CrystalISBN 0140514163 (0-14-051416-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Penguin Encyclopediaby David CrystalISBN 0140515437 (0-14-051543-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Encyclopedia'Book summary:Edited by David Crystal, the UK's most widely respected reference editor, this second edition of The Penguin Encyclopedia is the most authoritative and topical one-volume encyclopedia available. New entires in this edition include: Hans Blix and Jay Garner, Ricky Gervais and Ozzie Osbourne, David Blaine and Jonny Wilkinson, David Kelly and John Kerry. New topics include the Iraq War, the US road map, SARS, the Freedom Building, and weapons of mass destruction. [via]
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Shakespeare's Wordsby David Crystal , Ben CrystalISBN 0140291172 (0-14-029117-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Words'Book summary:[via]One of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, and the actor Ben Crystal, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and meanings that are frequently misunderstood byor incomprehensible tothe modern reader. Every entry is supported by at least one illustrative quote to help the student, the teacher, the actor, the scholar, and the general reader grasp the depth and beauty of the Bard's language. Shakespeare's Words includes:
- Complete listings of all the French, Latin, Spanish, and Italian words, as well as Welsh, Scottish, and Irish dialects Shakespeare used
- Easy-to-read diagrams that represent the relationships between the characters and places for each play
- A conventional plot synopsis and list of dramatis personae for all the plays
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Who Cares about English Usage?by David CrystalISBN 0140225447 (0-14-022544-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Cares about English Usage?'Book summary:Why do we all employ "filler" phrases like "sort of" and "you know"? what is the difference between "attractive" and "not attractive"? when is a preposition the correct word to end a sentence with? and can it ever be acceptable to boldly split an infinitive? Many people care deeply about English usage, and many more are concerned about making mistakes. In this classic guide, David Crystal surveys the key controversies with wit, common sense, some entertaining quizzes and linguist's sharp insight into the ways we actually speak and write. He explores the dispute about the word "dispute" - is it pronounced "DIS-pute" or "dis-PUTE"? - the fate of the letter T in "often", and the best way of referring to the, er, bathroom. Language, he argues, should be a tool and not our master, and it is always profoundly marked by social trends such as changing gender roles. Hopefully (if that's the right word), we can all acquire greater linguistic sensitivity without imposing on ourselves a strait-jacket of rigid conformity. This book offers both reassurance and help. [via]
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Words on Words: Quotations About Language and Languagesby David Crystal , Hilary CrystalISBN 0140291342 (0-14-029134-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words on Words: Quotations About Language and Languages'Book summary:"I hate quotations," said Emerson in his Journals. "Tell me what you know." Poor Emerson. He didn't realize how very much could be known by browsing a book of quotations. Words on Words provides a sort of crash course in the history of thought about language and languages. Sure, what you get here are just snippets--nearly 5,000 of them--but those snippets will send you back to countless original sources. The result is a sort of Bartlett's for word lovers, language enthusiasts, and linguists. (As in Bartlett's, a generous portion of the text--nearly half--is devoted to indexes.)
Editors David Crystal and Hilary Crystal culled (and frequently corrected) quotations from elsewhere; they also read widely, gathering quotations from original sources. They were often surprised, they say in the book's introduction, by which texts rendered the most quotations: the works of Laurence Sterne, for example, were "unexpectedly fruitful"; Pepys's Diary, on the other hand, "yielded next to nothing." In their reading, the editors sought, among other qualities, "succinctness and autonomy of expression." They found this with abundance in the works of Oscar Wilde, as well as in those of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Montaigne, Emerson, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, and Ambrose Bierce (his unequaled Devil's Dictionary is widely quoted). The quotations have been sorted into 65 categories, focusing on such topics as language origins, usage, multilingualism, verbosity, slang, and the language of politics. One might think, given David Crystal's renown as a linguist, that professional linguists might have made a strong showing here. No go. "On the whole," the Crystals say, "linguists are remarkably unquoteworthy." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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