DAVID CRYSTAL

Currently, there may be no linguist, especially in the study of English, which is more famous than David Crystal. Hundreds of books, articles, and papers on language has been written. Among the most famous, or rather that made David famous Crystal, is the Classic Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. David Crystal's books the other review and stylistic intonation, linguistic applications in religion, pathology, internet, education, children, and texting or sms.

David Crystal was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941. He spent his childhood in Holyhead before his family moved to Liverpool in 1951. In his new town, David Crystal continue her schooling at St Mary's College and later studied English (in particular) at University College London (1959-62). At university he was doing research in the Survey of Home Usage under Randolph Quirk guidance. Academic life began when he became a lecturer at Bangor, and then Reading. Currently, David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster.
David Crystal began to publish his book in 1964, Systems of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features in Classic-a book he wrote with Randolph Quirk. One year later, he has published more books, Linguistics, Language and Religion, which examines the language of religion. After that, almost every year David Crystal publish books that dikerjakannnya either alone or with others.
In addition to being the author, David Crytal also actively involved in various language institutes. Among other things, he served as the founder of the Journal of Child Language, Child Language Teaching and Therapy, and Linguistics Abstracts; as protective International Association of Teachers of Bahasa Indonesia as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and the Association for Language Learning (ALL) as president of the UK National Literacy Association, and honorary vice-president of the Royal College of Speech and Language therapists, the Institute of Linguists, and the Society for Editors and Proofreaders.
However, the wide spaces spicy David Crystal may not be what makes it special; but rather, how he wrote an easy-read and his ideas are fresh, open. He is very concern with the graphic language (it can be seen from the formulation of ways of writing an encyclopedia, which brings a lot of columns, boxes, and bar-side), he was able to convey the complexity of logic languages ​​with a liquid (almost all of his books are written with an uncomplicated sentence structure and not crammed with technical languages). He lifted the positive development of language in cyberspace and symptoms of texting or sms. For the latter, would need to be dealt a little more.
David Crystal is probably the most emotional person in conducting a survey of the development of language on the Internet and SMS (on the Internet, he writes Language and the Internet; of the pager he wrote txting: the gr8 DB8). He even welcomed the symptom language of the Internet (he called it Netspeak), calls can confound the writing and speech in one room, and said, even theorized that the sms assist literacy development of children, contrary to the conservatives who say that the symptoms are difficult for children's language sms children understand the standard spelling. When challenged the claim that lowering the level of sms language literacy younger generation, Crystal says, "How can anyone remove the letter if he did not know that letter there?"
Openness and freshness of thought David Crystal shows the close relationship of linguistic knowledge and social development, placing human language as a subject of active players at the center of the vortex of language development. Languages ​​will die (David Crystal wrote the book Language Death), economic and political power will determine the hierarchical position of language (David Crystal writes book Classic as a Global Language), but humans will create something new, a new language that can represent new life them, out of nowhere they got it.