Product Description: A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in universities where English is taught as a foreign language...read more

Product Description: This book was first published in 1969. Its author, David Crystal OBE, has since written some of the most important books on language and linguistics, including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (1987) and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995, 2003)...read more

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Product Description: Learning to talk is probably the greatest milestone in a child's development, a deeply moving and often hilarious experience for all parents. It is also a process which has been intensively studied by psychologists and linguists in recent years; this charming an informative book by one of Britain's best known writers on linguistics shows us what they have discovered...read more

Essays on language cover sounds, word forms, syntax, vocabulary, social contexts, and varieties of English (view table of contents)

An up-to-date reference source offers more than forty thousand entries and a quick reference section of facts and figures. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Using a lively, modern and entertaining approach, leading language expert David Crystal offers teachers a wealth of clear advice on the everyday use and teaching of English grammar.

Product Description: Profiling has been acknowledged as a major contribution to the treatment of language disorder. First developed with reference to grammatical disability, profiling is extended in this book to cover segmental phonology, prosody and semantics...read more

Product Description: A large number of terms to do with language crop up in day-to-day speech - but what do they all actually mean? The aim of this book is to provide a guide to linguistic concepts and names. Terms are drawn from the various applied areas of language study, such as language teaching, speech pathology, stylistics, typography and lexicography, as well as from grammar, figures of speech and basic phonetics...read more

Identifies and provides concise information on over twenty thousand people, places, and scientific and technical terms, with an emphasis on international coverage and up-to-date facts (view table of contents)

A standard for almost 20 years, this broadly revised fourth edition captures recent developments and new themes in the field of language pathology. Combining the model of the communication chain with an increased focus on information-processing psychology, this invaluable preparatory tool offers new information on -- medical and behavioral approaches to language disorders -- participatory conversation abilities of individuals with communication disorders -- World Health Organization distinctions among impairments, disabilities, and handicaps -- applications of linguistics and psychology to language pathology -- assessment and treatment of communication disorders Insightful review questions and helpful tutorials at the end of each chapter encourage discussion and actively support student learning. Instructors and students will benefit from this easy-to-read introduction to the study of language pathology.

Product Description: Revised and updated for this new edition, The Cambridge Concise Encyclopedia is a superb, rapid-response reference tool for home, school and office - in fact wherever quick answers are required. Its clear, easy-to-read entries - nearly 20,000 of them on all topics - contain the essential information for the 1990s...read more

A handy reference guide to important figures encompasses concise profiles of more than twenty-six thousand people, both living and dead, including political leaders, patron saints, Nobel Prize winners, sports champions, and others. UP. (view table of contents)

Provides data on the universe, the Earth, the environment, biology, history, the countries of the world, society, religion, communications, science and technology, the arts, scholarship, and sports. (view table of contents)

A second edition, newly revised for the current generation, includes extensive illustrated coverage of world English and Internet English as well as updated statistics, further reading suggestions, and additional reference lists. (Language) (view table of contents)

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Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present (view table of contents)