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Hi, my name is David Beckett, I’m a pitch coach, and I’m here to ensure your ideas have a voice.The big pitch is coming up. You’ve got just a few minu

This book the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer

This text provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the neural underpinnings of language.

In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how

So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language, making his plays eas

The world's best-known authority on the English language reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar.

Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a locati

The author explains structure and then shows how it works in different language contexts - the literary, the non-literary, the spoken and the written.

The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.

Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery,

The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. In this intriguing collec

An autobiography and an introduction to the field of linguistics. It offers us a look behind the scenes at the adventures, rewards, challenges and pit

It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other En

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this is a book written by an expert both for specialists in the subject and for general readers interest

Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to advanced ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable

In this text, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young c

Features a survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work. This work also talks about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how

Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracte

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 gui

The best-selling grammar reference - essential for all teachers and students of English. It provides an effortless tour through the structures and te