David Crystal
Linguist and English language scholar
David Crystal is a British linguist who studies the English language. He has written or edited over 100 books, and How Language Works is in our catalog.
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British Born 1941 in Lisburn, United Kingdom
About David Crystal
Crystal was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1941 and spent his early years in Holyhead, North Wales. He studied English at University College London, then lectured in linguistics at Bangor and Reading. He later took up an honorary professorship in linguistics at Bangor, part of the University of Wales. His research has covered intonation and stylistics, and he has applied linguistics in religious, educational and clinical settings. He is an advocate of Internet linguistics and has advised Shakespeare productions on original pronunciation. He received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1995 and became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. His other titles include Words, Words, Words, The Stories of English and Shakespeare’s Words.