The English Language
The English Language by David Crystal, published by Penguin Books in 1988, offers a comprehensive survey of English in its various global forms. This edition delves into how individual speakers personalize the language through their choices in pronunciation, dialect, vocabulary, and grammar. It provides an insightful exploration of the development of English, highlighting both the unifying factors and the regional variations that characterize its use around the world.
Readers will find a thorough examination of the influences shaping the language, including the impact of the Internet, social and political changes, and recent neologisms. The book also addresses developments in media and evolving preferences in accent and dialect. A new chapter discusses the effects of technology on English, culminating in a thoughtful consideration of the language’s future. With 288 pages, this edition serves as a valuable reference for those interested in linguistics and the dynamics of language arts.
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This new edition of David Crystal’s classic book is the definitive survey of English in all its global variations. Despite the astonishingly widespread use of English, each speaker makes it their own. Whenever we write or speak we give away a great deal about ourselves by our choices in pronunciation, dialect, vocabulary and grammar. This fascinating book explores the way the language has developed, and examines the factors that unify it and the variations that divide it both nationwide and worldwide. Now completely revised, The English Language takes into account the phenomenal influence of the Internet as well as social and political changes, recent neologisms, developments in the media and shifting preferences in accent and dialect. There is also a new chapter on the effect of technology on English and a final discussion of the future of the language. Book jacket.
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