Biography
Professor David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He previously held a Chair at the University of Reading for 10 years.
He is widely known for his research in English language studies, encompassing a broad range of fields that includes phonetics, stylistics, the language of the Internet, English language teaching, child language, and application of linguistics to religious, educational, forensic, and clinical contexts.
In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he has authored over 100 books, among which are two encyclopedias for Cambridge University Press (The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language), as well as English as a Global Language, The Language of the Internet, and Pronouncing Shakespeare. Recent books include The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation (2016) and Making a Point: the Pernickety Story of English Punctuation (2015).
He has been a consultant, contributor, or presenter on several radio and television programmes. Professor Crystal received an OBE for services to the English language in 1995.
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Unity in complexity: the central role of language play.