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The Language Revolution: Themes for the 21st Century

Autor Crystal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2004
We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages.


In this book, David Crystal, one of the world's authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the world's linguistic ecology: first, the emergence of English as the world's first truly global language; second, the crisis facing huge numbers of languages which are currently endangered or dying; and, third, the radical effect on language of the arrival of Internet technology.


Examining the interrelationships between these topics, Crystal encounters a vision of a linguistic future which is radically different from what has existed in the past, and which will make us revise many cherished concepts relating to the way we think about and work with languages. Everyone is affected by this linguistic revolution.


The Language Revolution will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication in the twenty-first century.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745633138
ISBN-10: 0745633137
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 139 x 214 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Polity Press
Seria Themes for the 21st Century

Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication, in addition to students of language and sociology from A level and above.

Notă biografică

David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor.

Descriere

* The author has written separate books on the three separate trends involved in the language revolution, but this is the first time that he has brought them together into a single argument. * The author is a world authority on language and widely published in the field.