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David Crystal (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic and author. ==Background and career== Crystal was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England, where he attended St Mary's College from 1951.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=All About...The Author )〕 He studied English at University College London between 1959 and 1962.〔 He was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963, working on the Survey of English Usage.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Staff Profile of Professor David Crystal )〕 Since then he has lectured at Bangor University and the University of Reading and is an honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=David Crystal profile )〕 Retired from full-time academia, he works as a writer, editor and consultant, and contributes to television and radio broadcasts. His association with the BBC ranges from, formerly, a BBC Radio 4 series on language issues to, more recently, podcasts on the BBC World Service website for people learning English.〔 Crystal was awarded the OBE in 1995 and became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. His many academic interests include English language learning and teaching, clinical linguistics, forensic linguistics, language death, "ludic linguistics" (Crystal's neologism for the study of language play),〔David Crystal, ("Carrolludicity" )〕 style, English genre, Shakespeare, indexing, and lexicography. He is the Patron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL, honorary vice-president of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), and Patron of the UK National Literacy Association. He is a consultant for ''Babel - The Language Magazine'', for which he has also written articles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Babel The Language Magazine )〕 He lives in Holyhead with his wife, a former speech therapist and now children's author. He has four grown-up children. His son Ben Crystal is also an author and co-authored three books with his father. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Crystal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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