SPELL IT OUT

SPELL IT OUT

THE SINGULAR HISTORY OF ENGLISH SPELLING

CRYSTAL, DAVID

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Editorial:
PENGUIN BOOKS, S.A.
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Libros en Inglés
Ubicación
B-1900
ISBN:
978-1-84668-568-2
Páginas:
224
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Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five per cent is complicated, and in Spell It Out our foremost linguistics expert David Crystal extends a helping hand to the confused and curious alike.

Naceu en Gales en 1941. Foi profesor na Universidade de Reading, unha das institucións inglesas máis prestixiosas nos estudos de lingüística. É o principal responsable de The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (1987) e a súa obra abrangue títulos en case todos os eidos dos estudos lingüísticos. Sempre atento ás necesidades e ansiedades comunicativas do mundo actual, nos últimos anos dedicou unha boa parte dos seus esforzos a investigar sobre o xogo lingüístico en Language Play (1998) e sobre a lingua como vehículo de comunicación na rede en Language and the Internet (2001). En 2003 apareceu en galego A morte das linguas, un diagnóstico preciso sobre a situación das linguas en perigo.



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