#david crystal

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Portrait of model Monique Chevalier wearing a suit designed by David Crystal

Photographer: Henry Clarke

Vogue, September 1st, 1958

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US Vogue January 1956

Barbara Mullen wears a very simple sheath dress in bleached beige Irish linen. By David Crystal. Coro jewelry. Sally Victor hats.

Barbara Mullen porte une robe fourreau très sobre en lin irlandais beige blanchi. Par David Crystal. Bijoux Coro. Chapeaux Sally Victor.

Photo Leombruno-Bodi

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Model wearing David Crystal, photographed by Kay Bell before a painting by Max Weber, Vogue April 1945

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Lingüística del Internet

Por: Mario Narváez, 30 de noviembre, 2021

Es una rama de la lingüística advocada por el lingüista David Crystal. Estudia nuevos estilos y formas de lenguaje que han surgido por la influencia del internet y de nuevos medios de comunicación como lo son los mensajes de texto (SMS). A partir de este estudio, aparece la jerga del internet, también conocida como cyber-slang, netspeak, chatspeak, etc. La misma es una forma no oficial de comunicación usada por las personas en el internet. El origen de esta jerga aparece desde los primeros días del internet con la necesidad de que los programadores tengan una forma de comunicarse más rápida y efectiva, a partir de ahí, se empezó a usar en otros lados, como en chat rooms, videojuegos online, servicios de redes sociales, etc. Las principales motivaciones para usar esta jerga son para facilitar la comunicación, con el uso de atajos, el tiempo que toma leer un mensaje se reduce, sin embargo, esto no significa que facilite la lectura ya que muchas personas pueden no conocer los diferentes términos haciendo más difícil el entendimiento de los mensajes.

References:

Crystal, D. (2011). Internet linguistics: A student guide. Routledge.

Crystal, D. (2005, February). The scope of Internet linguistics. In Proceedings of American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference; American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference, Washington, DC, USA (pp. 17-21).

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Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.

How Language Works by David Crystal

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reading David Crystal's 'The Stories of English' in my most delicate blouse ☁️🌸 it's a self proclaimed 'patchwork quilt' of a book that gives a lot of insight into elitism within the study of English as well as the language in general 🕊

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A Little Book of Language, David Crystal (Review)

This book was first published in 2009, which makes it about as old as its most precocious readers. I somehow missed this book when I was doing my round up of language books for kids back in 2011, but thanks to Dr Vanja K for mentioning it in a Twitter thread.

I should actually have assumed that David Crystal had written a book for children. He is one of the most prolific authors on the topic of the English language and linguistics, and is not only incredibly sensible but also charming and engaging. Most of us would be lucky to write one book as clear and engaging, while David Crystal has written (checks his website)... over a hundred. (over a hundred?? No wonder I missed this one.)

This book has 40 short chapters of 3-4 pages, with many featuring a separate breakout with a related story or example. It begins with a baby learning to acquire sounds and grammar before whistle-stop tours through many areas of language from  literacy, spelling, grammar, linguistic diversity, language change, dialects, names, literature and more. If you can only read a few chapters without your head exploding with facts and information then you’re doing better than me. This book covers far more topics than you get in a typical introduction to linguistics book, and never lags on a point.

There are a few chapters the book shows its age, mostly in the later sections touching on text speak and technology. Crystal comes across as a genial grandfatherly guide through language, but not unlike chatting with my own grandparents there are a few awkward intergenerational moments (are we still calling it ‘motherese’? making jokes about ‘the men in white coats‘? oh ok).

Other than these moments where the book is showing its age, it’s pretty much the best thing going for a keen middle grade reader. No need to wait another 5 years to discover linguistics at university.

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See also: Other linguistics books for kids

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Covocabulary | FifteenEightyFour | Cambridge University Press

All over the linguistics world, linguists are staying safe, like everyone else, but in their newly imposed spare time are having a field day, because Covid-19 has given them a new lexical world to explore.