CRYSTAL, David

CRYSTAL, David. British, b. 1941. Genres: Poetry, Children's non-fiction, Language/Linguistics, Medicine/Health, Speech/Rhetoric, Theology/Religion, Reference. Career: College of North Wales, assistant lecturer, 1963-65; University of Reading, lecturer and reader, 1965-75, professor of linguistic science, 1976-85; University College of Wales, Bangor, professorial fellow, 1985-; Crystal Reference, chairman, 2002-. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, editor, 1985-96; Linguistics Abstracts, editor, 1985-96; English Today, consulting editor, 1986-94. OBE, 1995. Publications: (with R. Quirk) Systems of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features in English, 1964; Linguistics, Language and Religion, 1965; What Is Linguistics?, 1968, 5th ed., 1985; (with D. Davy) Investigating English Style, 1969; Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English, 1969; Linguistics, 1971; The English Tone of Voice, 1975; (with D. Davy) Advanced Conversational English, 1975; (with P. Fletcher and M. Garman) The Grammatical Analysis of Language Disability, 1976; Child Language, Learning, and Linguistics, 1976; Working with LARSP, 1979; Eric Partridge: In His Own Words, 1980; A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 1980, 5th ed., 2002; Introduction to Language Pathology, 1980, 4th ed. (with R. Varley), 1998; Clinical Linguistics, 1981; Directions in Applied Linguistics, 1981; Linguistic Controversies, 1981; Profiling Linguistic Disability, 1982; Linguistic Encounters with Language Handicap, 1984; Language Handicap in Children, 1984; Who Cares about English Usage?, 1984, 2nd ed., 2000; Listen to Your Child, 1986; Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 1987, 2nd ed., 1997; Rediscover Grammar, 1988, 2nd ed., 1996; Pilgrimage, 1988; The English Language, 1988, 2nd ed., 2002; Convent, 1989; Language A to Z, 1991; Making Sense of English Usage, 1991; Nineties Knowledge, 1992; Introducing Linguistics, 1992; An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages, 1992, rev. ed. as The Penguin Dictionary of Language, 1999; The Cambridge Paperback Encyclopedia, 1993, 3rd ed., 1999; Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1995, 2nd ed., 2003; Discover Grammar, 1996; John Bradburne: Songs of the Vagabond, 1996; English as a Global Language, 1997, 2nd ed., 2003; Language Play, 1998; (with H. Crystal) Words on Words, 2000; (with H. Crystal) John Bradburne's Mutemwa, 2000; Language Death, 2000; Happenings, 2000; Language and the Internet, 2001. EDITOR: (with W. Bolton) The English Language, 1969; The Cambridge Encyclopedia, 1990, 4th ed., 2000; The Cambridge Concise Encyclopedia, 1992, 2nd ed., 1995; The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, 1994, 2nd ed., 1998; The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary, 1996; New Penguin Encyclopedia, 2002; New Penguin Factfinder, 2003; New Penguin Concise Encyclopedia, 2003. CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION: (with J. Bevington) Skylarks, 1975; (with J. Foster) Heat, Light, Sound, Roads, Railways, Canals, Monasteries, Manors, Castles, Money, Parliament, Newspapers, The Romans, The Greeks, The Ancient Egyptians, Air, Food, Volcanoes, Deserts, Electricity, Motorcycles, Computers, Horses and Ponies, The Normans, The Vikings, The Celts, The Anglo-Saxons, The Stone Age, Fishing, 29 vols., 1979-85; Air and Breathing, Heating and Cooling, Light and Seeing, Sound and Hearing, 1991. Address: Akaroa, Gors Ave, Holyhead LL65 1PB, Wales.