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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 403
EAN: 9780521559676
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0521559677
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 488
Publication Date: February 13, 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Editorial Review:
In the late 1980s David Crystal wrote his testament to human language, celebrating the world's diversity and reveling in the beauty and complexity of expression. But even great references need the occasional overhaul. Crystal's new edition takes into account the linguistic changes wrought in the decade since the original's inception. With the introduction of new topics (conversational misunderstandings, for example), a more pleasing typeface, and full-color pictures, the tour de force that was his first edition has been upgraded to a new level of quality.
This Second Edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language presents a mass of new information and introduces the subject of language to a fresh generation of students and general readers. Probably the most successful general study of language ever published, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language covers all the major themes of language study, including popular ideas about language, language and identity, the structure of language, speaking and listening, writing, reading, and signing, language acquisition, the neurological basis of language, and languages of the world. Exposing this work to a new generation of readers, the Second Edition extends the range of coverage to include advances in areas such as machine translation, speech interaction with machines, and language teaching. There is new material on acoustics, physiological concepts of language, and World English, and a complete update of the language distribution maps, language-speaking statistics, table of the world's languages, and further reading. All geopolitical material has been revised to take account of boundary changes. The book has been redesigned and is presented for the first time in full color, with new pictures and maps added.
This second edition extends the Encyclopedia's range of coverage to include advances in areas like machine translation, speech interaction with machines, and language teaching. There is also new material on acoustics, physiological concepts of language and World English.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Awesome!!!
This is a useful, complete and wonderful book, which person interested in language should have. It's topics are simply great!!
Olga Ocaña
Rating: - An unmatched linguistic compendium
Everything that you could ever have wanted to know about the way language works is in here (along with many other things that you probably had never even thought of). From the minds ability to comprehend certain sights and sounds as forms of communication and how it deciphers them to writing styles, changes and progression in languages and grammatical structures and nuances in voice level and tone used to alter understanding of a particular syllable, this book's got it all. I have to confess to being ... Read More
Rating: - excellent overview of language
David Crystal's Encylcopedia of Language is an excellent and readable book for lay-people like myself. I often come to it for information on a particular language-related question, or else I'll just open it up at random and see where I land.
There are plenty of diagrams and coloured pictures throughout, as well and quite a few interesting stories placed in vignettes.
As other reveiwers have pointed out, a huge range of topics are included here. I'm yet to find an aspect of ... Read More
Rating: - A brief comment
This book is a linguaphile and language lover's delight, to read or just to browse like a coffee table book. It covers just about every major topic in the study of language you can think of, from traditional classical and comparative philology and linguistics to modern developmental and neurological studies of language.
The book is comprised of 11 major sections and 65 smaller sections, with 8 appendices devoted to various topics, and there is an extensive glossary of linguistic terms as ... Read More
Rating:  - A good Encyclopedia of language
Indeed ,David Crystal is a great and famous linguist of this century .His books about language are very important for students and common readers .His book "What is linguistics "is a good book for students ,but this book is important and informative for all people with scholars .There are several useful mapes and tables which guide a reader to understand the different family of languages.
I am siraiki speaking person .It was natural for me to read about my language,but Crystal is not aware ... Read More
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