David Crystal

David Crystal, OBE ( born July 6, 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland ) is a British linguist and author.

Life and work

Crystal grew up in Holyhead and Liverpool. In Liverpool he visited in 1951, the St. Mary 's College. Between 1959 and 1962 he studied English at University College London. Between 1962 and 1963 he worked at Randolph Quirk on " Survey of English Usage ". Since then he has taught at the University of Wales, Bangor ( UWB) and at the University of Reading. David Crystal lives with his wife and four children in Holyhead. His son Ben Crystal is an actor. 1995 him the Order of the British Empire (OBE ) has been awarded.

David Crystal is the author of over 60 books. He is an editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language ( 1987) and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995). He has written numerous books on linguistics generally understandable and linguistics. Among his many academic interests include English as a Lingua Franca, English teaching, forensic linguistics, Sprachentod, linguistics of humor, style, William Shakespeare, Indexing, lexicography and language on the Internet. He also published literary works such as poems, plays and biographies. As a devout Catholic, he wrote poems and articles for the Catholic magazine The Tablet. He is Chairman of the UK National Literary Association and the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language ( International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, IATEFL ). For BBC Radio 4 he hosted for several years a program on linguistic issues. David Crystal was one of the co-founder of Crystal Semantics Limited.

Works (selection)

  • Introduction to Linguistics, 1997, coal hammer, ISBN 3-17001-368-8
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 2nd edition 2004, Zweitausendeins, ISBN 3-861-50705-6 (see: Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language)
  • Pronouncing Shakespeare. CUP 2005. ISBN 0-521-85213-7
  • Txtng: The Gr8 db8, 2009, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN 978-0199571338
  • Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010 ISBN 978-0-199585854
  • A Little Book of Language, 2010, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300170825
  • The Stories of English, 2011, Penguin, ISBN 978-0141015934
  • The Story of English in 100 Words, 2012, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684289
  • Spell it Out: The Story of English Spelling, 2012, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846685675
  • Shakespeare's original pronunciation. Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare would have heard them. British Library, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7123-5119-5 (audio CD with booklet. )
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