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.
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.
發表於2024-05-17
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書名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英語是一種豐富、極具創新力的語言。而英語詞匯的發展簡直是一部【語言詞匯的移民史】,本書用100個故事講述瞭100個英語單詞的演化過程,精彩絕倫,追根溯源,作者語言功底深厚,娓娓道來,引人入勝,實屬是...
評分書名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英語是一種豐富、極具創新力的語言。而英語詞匯的發展簡直是一部【語言詞匯的移民史】,本書用100個故事講述瞭100個英語單詞的演化過程,精彩絕倫,追根溯源,作者語言功底深厚,娓娓道來,引人入勝,實屬是...
評分書名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英語是一種豐富、極具創新力的語言。而英語詞匯的發展簡直是一部【語言詞匯的移民史】,本書用100個故事講述瞭100個英語單詞的演化過程,精彩絕倫,追根溯源,作者語言功底深厚,娓娓道來,引人入勝,實屬是...
評分書名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英語是一種豐富、極具創新力的語言。而英語詞匯的發展簡直是一部【語言詞匯的移民史】,本書用100個故事講述瞭100個英語單詞的演化過程,精彩絕倫,追根溯源,作者語言功底深厚,娓娓道來,引人入勝,實屬是...
評分書名:《The Story of English in 100 Words》 作者:David Crystal 英語是一種豐富、極具創新力的語言。而英語詞匯的發展簡直是一部【語言詞匯的移民史】,本書用100個故事講述瞭100個英語單詞的演化過程,精彩絕倫,追根溯源,作者語言功底深厚,娓娓道來,引人入勝,實屬是...
圖書標籤: 英語 語言學 英語詞源 詞匯 英語史 英文原版 詞源 語言演化
斷斷續續看完瞭,基本上沒記住幾個單詞,有些常見單詞是要記住的
評分#推遍閱讀##推遍反饋#《The Story of English in 100 Words》作者David Crystal。看到小推推薦按圖索驥,斷斷續續地刷完瞭。如果你想瞭解英語詞匯的發展,這會是不錯的選擇。淺顯但邏輯清晰,很有趣味性,100個單詞分成100章,可以隨時拿起、隨時放下,很適閤初入門的原著閱讀愛好者。@貓魚列傳
評分這本書竟然還沒齣簡體中文版麼??(2019/12/30~2020/01/13讀完~
評分Enable the readers to obtain a clear view of the wood as well as the trees : )
評分斷斷續續看完瞭,基本上沒記住幾個單詞,有些常見單詞是要記住的
The Story of English in 100 Words 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載