David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, and he received his secondary schooling at St Mary's College. He read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language studies, did some research there at the Survey of English Usage under Randolph Quirk (1962-3), then joined academic life as a lecturer in linguistics, first at Bangor, then at Reading. He published the first of his 100 or so books in 1964, and became known chiefly for his research work in English language studies, in such fields as intonation and stylistics, and in the application of linguistics to religious, educational and clinical contexts, notably in the development of a range of linguistic profiling techniques for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He held a chair at the University of Reading for 10 years, and is now Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. These days he divides his time between work on language and work on internet applications.
发表于2024-12-22
The Story of English in 100 Words 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
书名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英语是一种丰富、极具创新力的语言。而英语词汇的发展简直是一部【语言词汇的移民史】,本书用100个故事讲述了100个英语单词的演化过程,精彩绝伦,追根溯源,作者语言功底深厚,娓娓道来,引人入胜,实属是...
评分书名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英语是一种丰富、极具创新力的语言。而英语词汇的发展简直是一部【语言词汇的移民史】,本书用100个故事讲述了100个英语单词的演化过程,精彩绝伦,追根溯源,作者语言功底深厚,娓娓道来,引人入胜,实属是...
评分书名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英语是一种丰富、极具创新力的语言。而英语词汇的发展简直是一部【语言词汇的移民史】,本书用100个故事讲述了100个英语单词的演化过程,精彩绝伦,追根溯源,作者语言功底深厚,娓娓道来,引人入胜,实属是...
评分书名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英语是一种丰富、极具创新力的语言。而英语词汇的发展简直是一部【语言词汇的移民史】,本书用100个故事讲述了100个英语单词的演化过程,精彩绝伦,追根溯源,作者语言功底深厚,娓娓道来,引人入胜,实属是...
评分书名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英语是一种丰富、极具创新力的语言。而英语词汇的发展简直是一部【语言词汇的移民史】,本书用100个故事讲述了100个英语单词的演化过程,精彩绝伦,追根溯源,作者语言功底深厚,娓娓道来,引人入胜,实属是...
图书标签: 英语 语言学 英语词源 词汇 英语史 英文原版 词源 语言演化
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.
In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word--'roe'--was written down on the femur of a roe deer in the fifth century. Featuring ancient words ('loaf'), cutting edge terms that relfect our world ('twittersphere'), indispensible words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what'), fanciful words ('fopdoodle') and even obscene expressions (the "c word..".), David Crystal takes readers on a tour of the winding byways of our language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.
原来法律英语中很多的名词组合是为了照顾不同语言的法律条文(英语、法语和拉丁语);原来 debt 里面不发音的 b 是为了增加单词的拉丁感,很有趣的一本小册子~
评分Enable the readers to obtain a clear view of the wood as well as the trees : )
评分真正的语言大师写词源都妙趣横生!!继On Writing Well 之后近期读到的第二本让我倾倒不已的英语语言写作类书籍。做为睡前读物,实在是太合适了,可以随时拿起随时放下!一共100章,一章讲一个(类)词,对英语作为一门语言有了更深的了解,甚至融会贯通地对汉语也更理解了,大力推荐!"When we explore the history of words, we find a window into society". PS 有很多各国词汇对比的,深深感叹我已经完全是美式英语了。
评分好书~~~
评分原来法律英语中很多的名词组合是为了照顾不同语言的法律条文(英语、法语和拉丁语);原来 debt 里面不发音的 b 是为了增加单词的拉丁感,很有趣的一本小册子~
The Story of English in 100 Words 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书