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David Crystal's 50 Questions About English Usage by David Crystal 9781108959186
Booksplease Price: $28.50David Crystal provides concise, accessible answers to fifty questions about English language usage. In this compact, user-friendly book, David Crystal draws on his extensive knowledge and experience... -
Discover Grammar by David Crystal
Booksplease Price: $69.85Product Description An enthusiastic and practical approach to language learning A riveting and valuable combination of David Crystal's language expertise and Geoff Barton's sound, practical classroom... -
The Stories of English by David Crystal
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.23When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are... -
English as a Global Language by David Crystal
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $29.90David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has... -
The Language Revolution by David Crystal 9780745633138
Booksplease Price: $34.04We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many... -
Clinical Linguistics by David Crystal 9783709140031
Booksplease Price: $98.15This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of "Disorders of Human Communication". Each monograph deals in detail with a particular aspect of vocal... -
The Stories of English by David Crystal 9781585677191
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $39.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585677191Author David CrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Overlook PressPublisher... -
How Language Works by David Crystal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his... -
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable... -
Language and the Internet by David Crystal 9780521868594
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $76.21In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of... -
Language Death by David Crystal 9781107431812
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.55The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of... -
Making Sense of Grammar by David Crystal
Booksplease Price: $102.88Moves the analysis of grammar and language structure onto the next stage - interpreting it from a semantic and pragmatic point of view. Clearly shows how grammar works in different literary contexts... -
A Little Book of Language David Crystal 9780300283235
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68A 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 you think. It's there... -
Investigating English Style by David Crystal 9780582550117
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $122.93A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking... -
Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide by David Crystal
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $78.79The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor... -
Rediscover Grammar Third edition by David Crystal
RRP: $93.45Booksplease Price: $85.97Clear demonstration of how language structures link together, description of features and usage and cautions against easy mistakes. Includes new sections on ethnic variation and electronic... -
Words Words Words by David Crystal 9780199210770
RRP: $26.23Booksplease Price: $16.99Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our... -
Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary by David Crystal
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.70Winner of Best Book, Publication, or Recording prize at the Falstaff Awards 2015 Shortlisted for the 2016 SLA Information Book Award The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of... -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal 9780521736503
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $84.80This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study which have taken place since the mid 1990s. Two main new... -
Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $19.74Harold Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger, and he has been knighted for his services to journalism. In Do I... -
The Story of English in 100 Words David Crystal 9781846684289
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what')... -
Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide by David Crystal 9780415602686
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $233.84The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor... -
Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English by David Crystal 9780521290586
RRP: $86.10Booksplease Price: $81.10This book was first published in 1969. Its author, David Crystal OBE, has since written some of the most important books on language and linguistics, including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language... -
Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment by David Crystal 9780521852135
Booksplease Price: $80.66How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare's Globe... -
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works by David Crystal
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81A 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... -
William Tyndale and the English Language David Crystal 9781851246656
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $43.49'Dearly beloved', 'say the word', 'the powers that be', 'for ever and ever' - these familiar phrases and many more were set down in print for the first time by William Tyndale. For his groundbreaking... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $49.27This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It... -
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion by David Crystal
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $46.41A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels... -
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68This 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... -
Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment by David Crystal 9781108466691
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $36.44How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days, Shakespeare's Globe presented a... -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal 9781108437738
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $77.76Now 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... -
Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories David Crystal 9781851246519
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.69The world of books has played a striking role in the history of English vocabulary. Book itself is one of the oldest words in the language, originating from boc in Old English, and appears in many... -
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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal 9780199571338 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $3.93This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable... -
La muerte de las lenguas by David Crystal 9788483231340
Booksplease Price: $45.72La 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... -
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50This 'engaging history of punctuation' (Wall Street Journal) is not only the first history of its kind, but a complete guide on how to use English punctuation. Behind every punctuation mark lies a... -
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the... -
Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language by David Crystal
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $31.16For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand... -
The Story of Be: A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language by David Crystal
RRP: $32.53Booksplease Price: $25.20It'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... -
Systems of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features in English by David Crystal 9783112414972
Booksplease Price: $214.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112414972Author David CrystalFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter -
Let's Talk: How English Conversation Works by David Crystal
RRP: $49.33Booksplease Price: $37.02Banter, 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...