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ISBN: 9781439503751
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
Author: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
Author: David CrystalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108423590
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of 'new Englishes', English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and 'big data' in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages
Author: Roger D. WoodardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521562560
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Examines the writing systems, morphology, phonology, syntax, and lexicon of ancient languages.
Language and the Internet
Author: David CrystalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521868599
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia
Author: David CrystalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521790994
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
An up-to-date reference source offers more than forty thousand entries and a quick reference section of facts and figures.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
Author: Patrick Colm HoganPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521866897
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics, finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of Minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic operation? Has your interest in narrative drawn you to question the relation between stories and grammars? The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences addresses these issues, along with hundreds of others. It includes basic entries for those unfamiliar with a given topic and more specific entries for those seeking more specialized knowledge. It incorporates both well-established findings and cutting-edge research and classical approaches and new theoretical innovations. The volume is aimed at readers who have an interest in some aspect of language science but wish to learn more about the broad range of ideas, findings, practices, and prospects that constitute this rapidly expanding field, a field arguably at the center of current research on the human mind and human society.
How Language Works
Author: David CrystalPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141911735
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we’re from and even who we want to be.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
Author: Brian HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 110710341X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 993
Book Description
Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development
Author: Stanley J. UlijaszekPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521560467
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A comprehensive and accessible summary of human growth and development for students and professionals alike.
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
Author: David CrystalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630993
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers an invaluable Ready Reference section with lists of political leaders and rulers, Nobel Prizewinners, patron saints, sports champions and many more. Acclaimed on its first publication in 1994 as a new kind of biographical reference book, the Encyclopedia is now established as a reliable source of information on over 26,000 people, fully cross-referenced. The book's international coverage and devotion to important figures - both historical and contemporary - in science and the arts as well as sports and popular personalities make it unique. This Second Edition has been comprehensively updated and supplemented with new entries.