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The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language

The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language

Penned By David Crystal
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The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language

The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language

Penned By David Crystal
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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 his 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 books 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.

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Length 312 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Penguin Books
Released 1988
Identifier (ISBN) 578494
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