Author: CRYSTAL, DAVID; CRYSTAL, HILART.
Title: Words on Words. Quotations about Language and Languages.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. [xii], 580; index of authors, index of sources, index of key words, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. London; Penguin Books; 2000. The quotations are arranged thematically under 65 different headings from 'The Nature of Language' through the 'Language of Politics' to 'Quoting and Misquoting'. There are three indexes - key words, sources and authors.

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