Szerző David Crystal

A lively journey through the story of language, from an infant's first word to the languages of the internetLanguage never leaves you alone. It’s there in your head, helping you think. It’s there to help you make relationships – and to break them. It’s…

In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets and global institutions, together with the weird and wonderful creations…

Now in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, a lively journey through the story of language With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins…

This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully…

David Crystal könyve az angolszász ismeretterjesztés legjobb hagyományait követve, olvasmányos és magas színvonalú összefoglalását adja mindannak, amit napjainkban a nyelvről tudni lehet. A hagyományosan nyelvészetinek tekintett témák mellett (grammatika,…