David Crystal

Making a Point

The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation

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Produktbeschreibung

The triumphant third volume in David Crystal's classic series on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide to how to use it - now in paperback.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781781253519
• ISBN-10: 178125351X
• Artikelnr.: 44788560

Autorenporträt

David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor. His many books range from clinical linguistics to the liturgy and Shakespeare. He is the author of The Story of English in 100 Words and Spell It Out: The Singular History of English Spelling, both published by Profile. His Stories of English is a Penguin Classic.

Rezensionen

Here is a learned and subtle book that amuses as it instructs, and instructs as it amuses. It deserves to sell three million Sam Leith Guardian