Sinopsis de THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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.
Fully updated and expanded with new material to meet the needs of twenty-first century English language enthusiasts
Packed with over 100 colour illustrations, maps, tables and graphics
New online audio resources recorded by David Crystal for this third edition bring the text to life
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108437738
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 29/11/2018
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por David Crystal
Es uno de los mejores especialistas en lenguaje del mundo. Profesor honorario en la Universidad de Wales, Bangor, ha publicado muchos libros sobre la Lengua Inglesa y la Lingüística, ha editado numerosas enciclopedias generalistas y ha escrito libros de texto para la escuela. Por otra parte, participa con regularidad en programas de radio y televisión. Entre sus libros están «The Stories of English» (2004), «Txtng: The Gr8 Db8» (2008) y «Just a Phrase I'm Going Through» (2009).