David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, and works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster on the subjects of language and linguistics. The author of over a hundred books on these subjects, he has been a regular speaker at Hay, talking about one or other of them, for the past 15 years. >
A little look at a little book.
David Crystal selects some of the topics he included in his introduction to language for young teenagers, A Little Book of Language - from babytalk to bilingualism, dialects to dictionaries, texts to tweets - and reports on what he had to do to make the subject accessible to young readers.