About this title: "Words, Words, Words" is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life f its own: it only exists in the mouths and ears, hands, eyes and brains of its users. As we are guided expertly and ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780199210770ISBN:0199210772
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007-07-06
ISBN-13:9780199210770ISBN:0199210772
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780199210770ISBN:0199210772
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 224 pages. Words, words, words is a celebration of what we say and how we say it. it invites us to engage linguistically with who we are: to understand what words tell us about where wecome from and what we do. and as they continually shape our lives, it suggests ways that we can look at words anew and get involved with collecting and coining words ourselves. halftones edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780199210770ISBN:0199210772
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 216x138 mm. (224) words, words, words is a celebration of what we say and how we say it. it invites us to engage linguistically with who we are: to understand what words tell us about where wecome from and what we do. and as they continually shape our lives, it suggests ways that we can look at words anew and get involved with collecting and coining words ourselves. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780199210770ISBN:0199210772
Description: New. Words, Words, Words is a celebration of what we say and how we say it. It invites us to engage linguistically with who we are: to understand what words tell us about where wecome from and what we do. And as they continually shape our lives, it suggest... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780199210770ISBN:0199210772
Description: Celebrating words both old and new, Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties. "Words Words Words" is published to coincide with the BBC series on word histories. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780199210770ISBN:0199210772
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"So, you like words? How much? This book is all about words. It's small, and the chapters are small, so it's more readable than you would think. But the author, David Crystal, is a top-flight linguist--and a Brit, hence the OBE and the UK-slant that creeps in--and he knows how to use words to discuss words.
Here you will find information on practically every word-related topic: origins, diversity, evolution, and enjoyment. The last section, Becoming a Word Detective, shows you how to find out the history of a word and the meaning of names, how to get involved with dictionaries and dialects, how to estimate the size of your vocabulary and keep a record of your child's words, and how to find out more about words, in case this wasn't enough.
Perhaps it is. It's pretty comprehensive, although short. And I like short."
"David Crystal has become my latest verbivore guru. After exhausting both Bryson & Lederer's musings on the English Language in countless books, I've recently discovered this charming and prolific Brit who appears to be publishing a book a year. (Lucky me!) In this concise and descriptivist jaunt through the Mother Tongue in recent times, Crystal also provides a way for readers to conduct their own informal statistical analysis of their approximate wordhoard by grabbing the nearest 1500+ page English dictionary. (Unfortunately, I either scored myself incorrectly, or I'm coming up a slightly uneducated moron. What gives?)"
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