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Title: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
Condition: New
Author: David Crystal
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781108437738
ISBN: 9781108437738
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: Language & Reference
Release Date: 29/11/2018
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 276mm
Item Length: 219mm
Item Width: 31mm
Item Weight: 1950g
Release Year: 2018

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