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• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsSteven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, "...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyA lively journey through the story of language, from an infant's first word to the languages of the internet ...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is ...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Bodleian Library • Publisher Imprint: Bodleian Library • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeA collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year. In this ingenious and div...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • BISAC: Communication StudiesDavid Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focus...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Chambers • Publisher Imprint: Chambers • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyWhat do a comic alphabet, a glorious lipogram and a wellerism have in common? Or, an audit of accountants, an illusion of magicians, an...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Penguin Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Group • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is the definitive survey of the English language--in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the l...

• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyNow in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, a lively journey throug...