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Language And The Internet by Crystal David
$49.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Language and the Internet by David Crystal
$49.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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 widespr ...Show more
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar by David Crystal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" and "conjunction" now often confound children and adults alike.Explaining the nut ...Show more
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This 'engaging history of punctuation' (Wall Street Journal) is not only the first history of its kind, but a complete guide on how to use English punctuation. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrarine ...Show more
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation by David Crystal
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ...There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce w ...Show more
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation by David Crystal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce ...Show more
Spell It Out - The Story of English Spelling by David Crystal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Reading Level: very good
This is an enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles 'stationery' from 'stationary' - and explains why the 'i before e except after c' rule is so misleading. Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictiona ...Show more
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
$21.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This is a unique journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities. 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 Brug ...Show more
Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This title is an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages. Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdood ...Show more
The Concise Oxford Dictionary: The Classic First Edition by Professor David Crystal
$38.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, today a world-famous bestseller, has always been a ground-breaking dictionary. In its first edition, The Concise Oxford Dictionary was adapted by Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler from The Oxford Dictionary (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary). ...Show more
The Fight for English - How language pundits ate, shot, and left by David Crystal
$24.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Reading Level: very good
Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humoro ...Show more
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works by David Crystal
$37.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-r ...Show more