David Crystal – Published Works

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A language revolution: from reluctance to renaissanceConflation of papers given to British Council conference in Cardiff, 30 September 2001 (on its Web site), and EYL World Language Day in Strasbourg, 26 September 2001 [part rewritten for Chapter 4 of The Language Revolution, 2004]09.30.2001

A London Language MuseumMuseum International, special issue on 'Languages, between heritage and development', 238, 2008, 80-8709.06.2008

A world of languages - and language housesIn Michael Dürr, Doris Müller-Toovey & Michael Vogt (eds), Die Welt der Sprachen: Neue Vermittlungsformate für die Auseinandersetzung mit sprachlicher Vielfalt (Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek, 2015), 106-1303.15.2015

Afterword on endangered languagesIn Kenneth L Rehg & Lyle Campbell (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 885-9408.07.2018

Alle 14 Tage stirbt eine SpracheSymposium über 'Explorations on Authentic Linguistics', University of Hamburg 22-4 February 2001, Im Wortlaut/Tagungen, 45-602.24.2001

As they say in ZanzibarLondon: HarperCollins, 2006, 717 pp. 0 00 721202 X; US edition (Oxford) 978 0 19 537450 601.01.2006

Back to the futureThe Linguist, January 2011, 10-1301.01.2011

Celebrating 100 issues of English Today and musing on museumsEnglish Today, 100, 2009, 24-712.01.2009

Come salvare le lingue a rischioMadrelingua (September 2013), 1-209.14.2013

Creating a world of languagesIn FIPLV (International Federation of Language Teacher Associations), World News 61, December 2004, 22-35. (Contribution to Linguapax conference on Diversity, Sustainability and Peace, Barcelona, 20-23 May 2004)12.06.2004

Crossing the great divide: language endangerment and public awarenessKeynote speech to the International Expert Meeting on Endangered Languages, UNESCO, Paris, 10 March 200303.10.2003

Death sentenceThe Guardian G2, 25 October 1999, 2-3; adaptation of Prospect article by The Guardian.10.25.1999

Diversity? We ain't seen nothin' yetPaper to the Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes Conference: 'Diversity in Language Learning and Teaching', Göteborg, 16 June 200606.16.2006

Foreword to Patxi Baztarrika, Babel o Barbariein Babel o Barbarie: una politica lingüística legítima y eficaz para la convivencia (Irun: Alberdania, 2010), English original followed by Spanish translation01.01.2010

Geiriau proffwydGolwg 10 (38), 1998, 18-1907.24.1998

Global English and social injustice: the need to listenResponse to a position paper by Anna Kristina Hultgren in a special issue on 'Global English and social justice' in Nordic Journal of English Studies, 19(3), 2020, 165–174.10.07.2020

Interview. Part 1, focusing on endangered languagesin New Routes 12, 2001, 6-803.14.2001

Introduction to N. Ostler, Empires of the Worldin Empires of the world: a language history of the world (London: The Folio Society, 2010), xix-xxiii. Folio Society edition of the book first published in 200506.01.2010

Is Welsh safe?[talk prepared for Rhodri Williams, 1999, unpublished]03.01.1999

Jezyk je dryshtvenya konstryktsija: interviewNin (Belgrade) 2750, 11 September 2003, 42-309.11.2003

Language deathCambridge: CUP, 2000, x+198 pp. 0 521 65321 5; Canto edition, 2002 (shown here); Canto Classics edition, 2014, 9781107431812; Spanish translation, 2001, La muerte de las lenguas (Madrid: Cambridge University Press), 218 pp. 84 8323 134 4; Galician translation, 2003, A morte das linguas (Vigo: Editorial Galaxia), 261 pp. 84 8288 622 3; Serbian translation, 2003, Smrt jezika (Belgrade: eke XX Vek), 262 pp. 86 7562 023 3; Lithuanian translation, 2005, Kalbos myrtis (Vilnius: Tyto alba), 204 pp. 9986 16 446 X; Arabic translation 2006 (University of Tabuk); Turkish translation, 2007, Dillerin Katli (Istanbul: Profil Yayincilik), 230 pp.01.01.2000

Language deathRadio talk for Lingua Franca (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1999); reproduced on e-mesh ltd web site, Nov 2000, and adapted for Quicksilver (Spring 2001), 74-611.01.1999

Language diversity, endangerment, and public awarenesspaper given to the British Academy in 2010, published in British Academy Review, 18, 2011, 12-20 [a revisiting of papers given between 2003 and 2007]02.23.2010

Lost for wordsOn Business, 2, 2010, 21-201.23.2010

Plurilingualism, pluridialectism, pluriformityplenary paper for TESOL Spain annual conference, Bilbao, 10 March 2012; in M. Pilar Díez, Rebecca Place & Olga Fernández (eds), Plurilingualism: promoting co-operation between communities, people and nations (Bilbao: University of Deusto, 2012), 13-2403.10.2012

Review of Daniel Nettle & Suszanne Romaine, Vanishing VoicesTHES, 9 February 200102.09.2001

Review of Tore Janson, A Short History of Languages; Andrew Dalby, Language in Danger; John McWhorter, The Power of BabelTHES, 14 June 2002, 2506.14.2002

Revitalizing languagesLanguage Magazine, October 2002, 18-20 [Adaptation of ABC talk]10.06.2002

Revitalizing the Celtic languages Journal of Celtic Language Learning 11, 2006, 5-19. [Paper to the XI Annual Conference of the North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers, University of Wales, Bangor, 11 June 2005]06.11.2005

Shooting languagesCeltic Film and Television Festival. Summary written for The Western Mail, 200007.01.2000

Speaking to the World about Speaking to the WorldIn Michael Kelly (ed), Languages after Brexit: how the UK speaks to the world (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 241-5001.10.2018

The death of a languageLanguages Today (Association for Language Learning: special issue on Languages and Identity), Autumn 2013, 14-1510.19.2013

The death of languageProspect, November 1999, 56-911.01.1999

The future of languageDVD of three lectures with subtitles and accompanying book of commentary (London: Routledge, 2009): The future of Englishes; Language death; Internet linguistics. 9780415484909.07.01.2009