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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Who formed and shaped the English language? David and Hilary Crystal take us on a journey through Britain to discover the people who gave our language its colour and character; Saxon invaders, medieval scholars, poets, reformers, dictionary writers. Part travelogue, part history, this beautifully illustrated book is full of unexpected delights.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: David 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 been deemed the most 'successful' language ever, with 1500 million speakers internationally, presenting a difficult task to those who wish to investigate it in its entirety. However, Crystal explores…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word (loaf) to advanced (twittersphere) and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue (and, what) to the more fanciful (fopdoodle), the author takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 350 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 266) Аннотация: For 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 Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences. Covering the five main dimensions of language…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: What do the following have in common? Let there be light — Whited sepulchres — A rod of iron — New wine into old bottles Lick the dust — How are the mighty fallen — A thorn in the flesh — Wheels within wheels They're all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book has 'contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source', wrote…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 524) Аннотация: This 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 areas have been added: the rise of electronic communication in all its current forms from email to texting, and the crisis affecting the world's languages, of which half are thought to be so…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: When 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 walked to Charmonth this afternoon'? This superbly well-informed — and also wonderfully entertaining — history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: In the best tradition of sound-bites and pithily entertaining witticism, the authors gather together essential facts and fascinating insights about William Shakespeare — probably the most famous writer of all time — and the world in which he lived and worked.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 676) Аннотация: Shakespeare’s Words is for people who love Shakespeare, or who love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world’s leading experts on the English language, and his actor son, Ben, have created an immensely practical and enlightening guide to understanding Shakespeare’s language for readers, audiences, students, directors and actors. They have collected over 14,000 words that can cause…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 210) Аннотация: The 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 cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 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 revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on 'The effect of technology' on the English language.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: What precisely are structuralism, semiotics and sociolinguistics? What distinguishes pidgins from creoles, gerunds from gerundines and the hard palate from the soft palate? How many people speak Macedonian, Malay or Makua? Now in its second edition, David Crystal's superbly authoritative dicionary provides answers to all these questions and to many hundreds of others concerned with language and…