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Second edition
David Crystal, world authority on the English language, presents a lively and factual account of the rise of English as a global language and ex-plores the whys and wherefores of the history, current status and futurepotentialofEnglishastheinternationallanguageofcommunication.En-glish has been lauded as the most ‘successful’ language ever, with 1,500million speakers worldwide; but Crystal avoids taking sides and tells thestory in a measured but engaging way, backed by facts and figures. Thisnew edition of his classic book contains extra sections (on subjects in-cluding the linguistic features of New Englishes, the future of English asaworldlanguage,andthepossibilityofanEnglish‘family’oflanguages),footnotes and a full bibliography. There are updates throughout. This isa book for anyone of any nationality concerned with English: teachers,students, language professionals, politicians, general readers and anyone with a love of the language.
DAVID CRYSTAL
is one of the world’s foremost authorities on language.Heisauthorofthehugelysuccessful
Cambridgeencyclopediaoflanguage
(1987; second edition 1997),
Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language
(1995),
Language death
(2000),
Language and the Internet
(2001) and
Shakespeare’s words
(2002, with Ben Crystal). An interna-tionally renowned writer, journal editor, lecturer and broadcaster, hereceived an OBE in 1995 for his services to the study and teaching of the English language. His edited books include several editions of
The Cambridge encyclopedia
(1990–2000) and related publications,
Words on words
(2000, with Hilary Crystal) and
The new Penguin encyclopedia
(2002).
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