wyszukanych pozycji: 71
David Crystal's Introduction to Language : A Complete Course
ISBN: 9780415602679 / Angielski / DVD-ROM / 2011 / 8 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 'A brilliantly accessible introduction to core topics in English language and linguistics. My students loved it.' David Adger, Queen Mary, University of London, UK 'Entertaining, clear and informative. David Crystal's lectures demystify and enrich the English language for students of all levels.' Sylvia Shaw, Middlesex University, UK 'A well-delivered and well-structured bird's-eye introduction to all areas of the study of language. Crystal's discussion of issues like dialect and bilingualism will interest many and hopefully promote a rational... 'A brilliantly accessible introduction to core topics in English language and linguistics. My students loved it.' David Adger, Queen Mar... |
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590,77 zł |
Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language
ISBN: 9780521876940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. You speak a language that I understand not. Hermione s words to Leontes in The Winter s Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare s plays today. For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare s life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest into aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? How did he manipulate language to produce such an unrivaled body of work, which has enthralled generations both as theater and as literature? David Crystal addresses these and many other questions in this lively...
You speak a language that I understand not. Hermione s words to Leontes in The Winter s Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watch...
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385,85 zł |
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
ISBN: 9780199668427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronuniciation (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed using IPA, and the accompanying website hosts sound files to further aid pronunciation. It also includes the main sources of evidence in the texts, notably all spelling variants (along with a frequency count for each variant) and all rhymes (including those occurring elsewhere in the canon, such as the Sonnets and long poems). An extensive...
This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronuniciation (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries ...
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147,39 zł |
Words Words Words
ISBN: 9780199210770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting," writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this exceptionally lively and erudite little book. "It is a voyage of lexical exploration and discovery."
In Words, Words, Words, Crystal takes readers on a fascinating linguistic adventure, exploring the English language in all its oddity, complexity, and ever-changing beauty. Traveling from word origins and word evolution to wordgangs, wordrisks, wordplay, wordgames and beyond, Crystal shares his immense knowledge of, and equally immense delight in, language. He... "Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting," writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this exceptionally lively...
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64,65 zł |
English as a Global Language
ISBN: 9781107611801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 the subject in a measured but engaging way, always backing up observations with facts and figures. Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this is a book written by an expert both for...
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...
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76,77 zł |
Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide
ISBN: 9780415602716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The 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 David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as a new field: Internet linguistics. In his engaging trademark style, Crystal addresses the online linguistic issues that affect us on a daily basis, incorporating real-life examples drawn from his own studies and personal involvement with Internet companies. He provides new... The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-frien... |
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190,02 zł |
Language Death
ISBN: 9781107431812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 writer on language issues, David Crystal asks the fundamental question, 'why is language death so important?', reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is being done to reduce...
The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropol...
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80,81 zł |
Language and the Internet
ISBN: 9780521868594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 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 call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In this book, David Crystal argues the reverse: that the Internet has encouraged a dramatic expansion in the variety and creativity of language. Covering a range of Internet genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, this...
In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspon...
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240,48 zł |
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion
ISBN: 9780140291179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience. It features different panels that look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address.
Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience...
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101,06 zł |
Just a Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language
ISBN: 9780415485746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In what is both an entertaining autobiography and an introduction to the field of linguistics, Professor David Crystal gives his answer to the question 'What happens when you become a liguist?' Surprisingly, the answer he gives is 'Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage ...'
In what is both an entertaining autobiography and an introduction to the field of linguistics, Professor David Crystal gives his answer to the questio...
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148,92 zł |
Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment
ISBN: 9781108466691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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93,85 zł |
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
ISBN: 9780199571338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Text messaging has spread like wildfire. Indeed texting is so widespread that many parents, teachers, and media pundits have been outspoken in their criticism of it. Does texting spell the end of western civilization?
In this humorous, level-headed and insightful book, David Crystal argues that the panic over texting is misplaced. Crystal, a world renowned linguist and prolific author on the uses and abuses of English, here looks at every aspect of the phenomenon of text-messaging and considers its effects on literacy, language, and society. He explains how texting began, how it works,... Text messaging has spread like wildfire. Indeed texting is so widespread that many parents, teachers, and media pundits have been outspoken in their c...
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48,30 zł |
Profiling Linguistic Disability 2e
ISBN: 9781870332934 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Profiling has been acknowledged as a major contribution to the treatment of language disorder. First developed with reference to grammatical disability, profiling is extended in this book to cover segmental phonology, prosody and semantics. The book also includes a revised version of the grammatical profiling procedure, LARSP.
Profiling has been acknowledged as a major contribution to the treatment of language disorder. First developed with reference to grammatical disabilit...
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389,07 zł |
You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents
ISBN: 9781447255468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An authoritative, entertaining book about our accents, and what they say about us
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father David travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English. Everyone has an accent, though many of us think we don't. We all have our likes and dislikes about the way other people... An authoritative, entertaining book about our accents, and what they say about us
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, w... |
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50,87 zł |
A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year
ISBN: 9781851246113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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127,28 zł |
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling
ISBN: 9781846685682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Why 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 typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign cars, and it stuck. This book takes you on a journey through English spelling.
Why 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 gui...
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55,97 zł |
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
ISBN: 9780199207640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The story of battles--both past and present--surrounding English language usage, The Fight for English explores why millions of people feel linguistically inferior. Unhappy with the "zero tolerance" approach to punctuation offered by Lynn Truss's Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, David Crystal offers a view of the subject that is much more balanced. Instead of answering the claims made by other manuals of English usage, Crystal provides an explanation and analysis of the genre as a whole.
Crystal weaves an intricate and engaging account that traces the history of the English language and its... The story of battles--both past and present--surrounding English language usage, The Fight for English explores why millions of people feel linguistic...
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179,03 zł |
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
ISBN: 9780521736503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 seriously endangered that they will die out this century. - All language statistics have been updated, and additional information provided about their linguistic affiliation - All topics involving technology...
This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study which h...
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242,51 zł |
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
ISBN: 9780199585854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Let there be light," "A fly in the ointment," "New wine in old bottles," "How are the mighty fallen," "The salt of the earth." All these everyday phrases owe their popularity to the King James Bible. Indeed, it is said that this astonishing Bible has contributed more to the color and grace of the English language than almost any other literary source.
In Begat, best-selling language expert David Crystal offers a stimulating tour of the verbal richness and incredible reach of the King James Bible. How can a work published in 1611 have had such a lasting influence on the language? To... "Let there be light," "A fly in the ointment," "New wine in old bottles," "How are the mighty fallen," "The salt of the earth." All these everyday phr...
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88,99 zł |
A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
ISBN: 9781405152969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Now completely revised and updated, incorporating new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the past five years, based on recommendations by a team of experts in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and sociolinguistics.
Now completely revised and updated, incorporating new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the past five years, based on recomme...
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529,66 zł |