The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language 3rd Edition by David Crystal 1108423590 9781108423595

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ISBN 10: 1108423590
ISBN 13: 9781108423595
Author: David Crystal

Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare’s vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of ‘new Englishes’, English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and ‘big data’ in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.

Table of contents:

1. Modelling English

PART I The History Of English

2. The Origins of English

3. Old English

4. Middle English

5. Early Modern English

6. Modern English

7. World English

8. The Nature of the Lexicon

9. The Sources of the Lexicon

10. Etymology

11. The Structure of the Lexicon

12. Lexical Dimensions

PART III English Grammar

13. Grammatical Mythology

14. The Structure of Words

15 Word Classes

16 The Structure of Sentences

PART IV Spoken and Written English

17 The Sound system

18 The Writing System

PART V Using English

19 Varieties of Discourse

20 Regional Variation

21 Social Variation

22 Personal Variation

23 Electronic Variation

PART VI Learning About English

24 Learning English as a Mother Tongue

25 New Ways of Studying English

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