剑桥语言百科全书
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（英）David Crystal
overview
《剑桥语言百科全书》的主要内容是：Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press is to be congratulated on its initiative in making these publications in linguistics available to foreign language teachers and postgraduate stuedns of linguistics in China. The books are a representative selection of up-to-date writings on the most important branches of linguistic strdies,by scholars who are recognized as leading authorities in their fields.
contents
1．Popular ideas about language
2．Language and identity
3．The structure of language
4．The medium of language:speaking and listening
5．The medium of language:writing and reading
6．The medium of language:signing and seeing
7．Child language acquistion
8．Language,brain,and handicap
9．The languages of the world
10．Language in the world
11．Language and communication
