Professor David Crystal
biography
Chilhoodlife
Born: July 6th 1941
Place :Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
His family moved to Liverpool in 1951
Received secondary school at St Mary's College
Carrier
was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963
working on the Survey of English Usage
he has lectured at Bangor University and the University of Reading and is an honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor
studied English at University College London between 1959 and 1962
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Retired from full-time academia, he works as a writer, editor and consultant, and contributes to television and radio broadcasts.
formerly, a BBC Radio 4 series on language issues to, more recently, podcasts on the BBC World Service website for people learning English
Authored work
Mainly in field of language
Best known for his two encyclopedias for Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (3rd ed 2017)
His proponent of a new field of study, Internet linguistics, and has published Language and the Internet (2001) on the subject.[17] Crystal's book Texting: The Gr8 Db8 (2008) focused on text language and its impact on society
From 2001 to 2006, Crystal served as the Chairman of Crystal Reference Systems Limited, a provider of reference content and Internet search and advertising technology. The company's iSense and Sitescreen products are based upon the patented Global Data Model, a complex semantic network that Crystal devised in the early 1980s and was adapted for use on the Internet in the mid 1990s.
involved in Shakespeare productions
was involve in 2004 and 2005 in the "Original Pronunciation" of the period in which he was writing, coaching the actors on the appropriate pronunciation for the period, and has since been the consultant for several other Shakespeare plays performed in OP, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Pericles, The Merchant of Venice, and Henry V.
Book
Crystal, David (2004). The Stories of English. The Overlook Press.
Crystal, David (2005). Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment. Cambridge University Press.
Crystal, David and Crystal, Ben (2004). Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion. Penguin.
Crystal, David (2006). The Fight for English. Oxford University Press.
Crystal, David (2002). "Language Death." Cambridge University Press.
Crystal, David (2007). By Hook or By Crook; A Journey in Search of English. The Overlook Press.
Crystal, David (1995). The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Crystal, David (2010). A Little Book of Language. Yale University Press.
Crystal, David (2012). Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language. Cambridge University Press.
Crystal, David (2012). Spell It Out. St.Martin's Press.
Crystal, David (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation. Oxford University Press.
Crystal, David (2017). Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar. Profile Books.