Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to advanced ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), the author takes us... Zobraziť viac
David Crystals Klassiker English as a Global Language behandelt die Geschichte, den gegenwärtigen Zustand und die mögliche Zukunft der englischen Sprache, mit Fokus auf ihre Rolle als die führende internationale Sprache... Zobraziť viac
The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life and linguists are increasingly concerned with how it is impacting on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark... Zobraziť viac