出版社: Profile Books
出版年: 2011-10-13
页数: 288
定价: GBP 12.99
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781846684272
内容简介 · · · · · ·
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.
In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular sinc...
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.
In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word--'roe'--was written down on the femur of a roe deer in the fifth century. Featuring ancient words ('loaf'), cutting edge terms that relfect our world ('twittersphere'), indispensible words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what'), fanciful words ('fopdoodle') and even obscene expressions (the "c word..".), David Crystal takes readers on a tour of the winding byways of our language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, and he received his secondary schooling at St Mary's College. He read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language st...
David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, and he received his secondary schooling at St Mary's College. He read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language studies, did some research there at the Survey of English Usage under Randolph Quirk (1962-3), then joined academic life as a lecturer in linguistics, first at Bangor, then at Reading. He published the first of his 100 or so books in 1964, and became known chiefly for his research work in English language studies, in such fields as intonation and stylistics, and in the application of linguistics to religious, educational and clinical contexts, notably in the development of a range of linguistic profiling techniques for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He held a chair at the University of Reading for 10 years, and is now Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. These days he divides his time between work on language and work on internet applications.
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一门语言的前世今生极有趣的,通过这本书,走进英语的历史故事中
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1 有用 三皮 2015-10-14 15:21:31
英语词汇发展史?是的。狗熊掰棒子式浏览一遍。一个词两三屏。增广视野。
0 有用 RDG的栗子树 2023-01-17 13:05:17 北京
这种小书就挺好玩的 DC这一本里说HP的地方还挺多
0 有用 小猛鸽 2023-09-07 09:40:50 江苏
很有意思
8 有用 Miss Coconut 2016-05-23 22:11:54
真正的语言大师写词源都妙趣横生!!继On Writing Well 之后近期读到的第二本让我倾倒不已的英语语言写作类书籍。做为睡前读物,实在是太合适了,可以随时拿起随时放下!一共100章,一章讲一个(类)词,对英语作为一门语言有了更深的了解,甚至融会贯通地对汉语也更理解了,大力推荐!"When we explore the history of words, we find a window in... 真正的语言大师写词源都妙趣横生!!继On Writing Well 之后近期读到的第二本让我倾倒不已的英语语言写作类书籍。做为睡前读物,实在是太合适了,可以随时拿起随时放下!一共100章,一章讲一个(类)词,对英语作为一门语言有了更深的了解,甚至融会贯通地对汉语也更理解了,大力推荐!"When we explore the history of words, we find a window into society". PS 有很多各国词汇对比的,深深感叹我已经完全是美式英语了。 (展开)
0 有用 拖鞋哥 2019-10-29 09:47:59
断断续续看完了,基本上没记住几个单词,有些常见单词是要记住的
0 有用 飒 2023-12-29 18:38:37 广东
算是比较有意思的英语史
0 有用 TeKaMoLo 2023-12-10 12:19:49 北京
课程用书,挺好玩的,以后闲着没事也可以读
0 有用 小猛鸽 2023-09-07 09:40:50 江苏
很有意思
0 有用 玛丽莲不吃鱼 2023-03-31 09:51:04 河南
读了。。。。。一年。。。书很有意思!
0 有用 麦 2023-03-06 18:40:14 内蒙古
与一般词源书不同的是这一本更系统一点,以词来讲英语变迁的故事,从第一个有文字记录的英语词汇开始,读者能看到大到战争、迁徙、交往、科技,小到食物、环境、语言游戏在文字里的刻痕,而且通过相似结构的文章,把英语巨变经历的几个时期很自然地凝聚在了一个词一句话上,比如诺曼征服、圣经的翻译、莎士比亚(以及其他人)通过造词对词汇的扩充、对语言灵活使用的呈现。还有对一些无意义的词、脏话、缩略语、造词的记录。让人看... 与一般词源书不同的是这一本更系统一点,以词来讲英语变迁的故事,从第一个有文字记录的英语词汇开始,读者能看到大到战争、迁徙、交往、科技,小到食物、环境、语言游戏在文字里的刻痕,而且通过相似结构的文章,把英语巨变经历的几个时期很自然地凝聚在了一个词一句话上,比如诺曼征服、圣经的翻译、莎士比亚(以及其他人)通过造词对词汇的扩充、对语言灵活使用的呈现。还有对一些无意义的词、脏话、缩略语、造词的记录。让人看到物质生活对语言使用的影响。real-life例子也非常多。总之挺有意思的,每天读几章,联想一些生活例子,看完都觉得自己英语变好了。不过一些价值性的分析是比较少的,虽然有介绍来自非传统英语国家的外来词,但讲述主体还是英美国家的native speaker(当然这也跟作者背景有关),读起来不是很满足。 (展开)