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'I don't get it': researching the cultural lexicon of global EnglishesIn Alexander Onysko (ed.), Research Developments in World Englishes (London: Bloomsbury, 1921), 173-98.05.01.2021
1 topic, 100 books: interview with Tobias SalesWriting Magazine, September 2016, 28-909.15.2016
2b or not 2b?The Guardian, 5 July 200807.05.2008
A brave new linguistic world125 Trinity: assessing the performance arts since 1877 (London: Trinity College), June 2002, 18-1906.01.2002
A case of the split infinitives.English Today 3, 1985, 16-1707.01.1985
A cautionary tale for the New Year (with H. Crystal)Bulletin, College of Speech Therapists, 346 (February 1981), 1-202.14.1981
A Date with Language(Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2023), viii + 392 pp. 978185124611310.05.2023
A defence of grammar [TES title]Times Educational Supplement, 3 June 2016, 26-3206.03.2016
A dictionary of linguistics and phoneticsOxford: Blackwell, 2nd edn (1985), 340 pp. 0 631 14079 4; 0 631 14081 6; Serbo-Croatian translation, 1987,Enciklopedijski recnik moderne lingvistike (Belgrade: Nolit), 293 pp. [Dejvid Kristal] 86 19 01579 6; Portuguese translation, 1988, Dicionário de lingüística e fonética (Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar), 275 pp. 85 7110 025 X; 3rd edn (1991), 389 pp. 0 631 17869 4; 0 631 17871; 4th edn (1996), xvii+426 pp. 0 631 20096 7; 0 631 20097 5; Greek translation, 2000 (Athens: Ekdoseis Pataki), 960 16 0859 1; 5th edn (2003), xx+448 pp. 0 631 22664 8; 6th edn (2008, shown here), xxv + 529 pp. (h/b) 978 1 4051 5296 9; (p/b) 978 1 4051 5297 601.01.1985
A first dictionary of linguistics and phoneticsLondon: Deutsch, 1980, 390 pp. 0 233 97087 8; 0 233 97326 5; later editions called A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics01.01.1980
A forensic linguistic challengeBabel 31, May 2020, 37 and 5005.01.2020
A forgotten English tone - an alternative analysisLe Maître Phonétique 132, 1969, 34-701.01.1969
A global languageIn Philip Seargeant & Joan Swann (eds), English in the world: history, diversity, change (Routledge, 2012), 152-77; an adaptation for the Open University of the paper in R. Hogg and D. Denison (eds), A History of the English Language (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), 420-3906.21.2012
A glossary of Netspeak and TextspeakEdinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004, 197 pp. 0 7486 2119 9; paperback 0 7486 1982 801.01.2004
A language must change, to keep pace with society.Liverpool Daily Post, 16 May 1963, 905.16.1963
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 life made of words: the poetry and thought of John Bradburne(Holyhead: Crystal Books, July 2017). 978190945925005.09.2017
A linguistic perspective for the assessment and treatment of language disabilityProceedings of the 5th International Deaf-Blind Seminar, 1974 (London: RNIB, 1976), 46-5803.14.1974
A linguistic revolutionin Education, Communication and Information 1(2), 2001, 93-7; also in Newsletter, Scottish TESOL 21 (2), 2002, 5-8. (Adaptation of ABC radio talk, 2001) This version from a talk to CUP Mexico, in-house publication.01.01.2002
A linguistic revolution?Concorde 9, 2003, 6-7. [updating of TESOL paper]01.01.2003
A little book of language(London: Yale, 2010) 272 pp. 9780300155334; Greek translation (Athens: Patakis, 2011). 9789601640334; Portuguese translation, Pequeno tratado sobre a linguagem humana (Sao Paulo: Editora Saraiva 2012), 268 pp. 9788502146129; German translation, Das kleine Buch der Sprache (Hamburg: Atlantik 2015), 304 pp. 9783455700114; Chinese translation (Taiwan: Rye Field Productions 2016), 318 pp. 9789863444787; 12 chapters selected in N. Okada (ed.), The wonderful world of language (Tokyo: Seibido, 2012), with Japanese notes, 102 pp. 9784791930968; Turkish translation (Istanbul: Alfa, 2018), 351 pp. 9786051717173; Arabic translation, 2019, 399 pp. 9789922601687; Thai translation (Bookscape, 2020), 359 pp. 9786168221334; Korean translation (SOSO, 2020), 438 pp. 9791188941469.04.08.2010
A liturgical language in a linguistic perspectiveNew Blackfriars, 1964, 148-5609.08.1964
A liturgical language in a sociolinguistic perspectiveIn D. & R.C.D. Jasper (eds), Language and the worship of the church (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), 120-4601.01.1990
A London Language MuseumMuseum International, special issue on 'Languages, between heritage and development', 238, 2008, 80-8709.06.2008
A minute with Tony Blairin Andy Green and Brian Lewis (eds), A minute with Tony Blair (Pontefract Press, 2001), p. 2503.01.2001
A new linguistic worldIn Keith Ryan (ed.), The Official Commemorative Album for the Millennium (London: Citroen Wolf Publications, 1999), 228-3101.01.1999
A parent's and teenager's alphabet bookIn J. Foster, All in the family (Oxford: OUP), 199303.14.1993
A perspective for paralanguageLe Maître Phonétique 120, 1963, 25-901.01.1963
A poll of the BBC's global audience reveals the appeal of quotations that mix sound and meaningThe Guardian Weekly, May 26-June 1 2006, Vol 174/No2305.26.2006
A pronounced change in British speechPractical English Teaching, September 1987, 5709.01.1987
A public countAround the Globe 24, 2003, 18-1907.01.2003
A question of accentSpeak Up (Milano) 342, September 2013, 44-5 [transcription of audio recording]09.07.2013
A third book?Cuesheet (Shakespeare's Globe Newsletter, 2003). [See further, the Sam Wanamaker lecture]01.01.2003
A thousand years of EnglishSydney Morning Herald, 199912.01.1999
A twenty-first century grammar bridgeThe Secondary English Magazine, 7(5), 2004, 24-6 [original title: Teaching grammar: turning words into deeds]06.01.2004
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
Action, reaction and inaction in applied linguisticsBAAL Newsletter 17, 1983, 22-903.01.1983
Advanced conversational English (with D. Davy)(London: Longman, 1975), 170 pp. 0 582 55074 2; 0 582 56831 5 (tape); 0 582 79005 0 (cassette); revised for this website in 2019 [see separate entry]01.01.1975
Advanced Conversational English (with D. Davy) [2019 edition]A 2019 revision by David Crystal and Derek Davy of the book first published in 1976 and long out-of-print. The recordings that are part of this book can be heard here.06.16.2019
After old words finally die, they will live on in the virtual worldOpinion, The Times, 22 September 2008, 2609.22.2008
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
Afterword to English for 21st century skillsin Sophia Mavridi and Daniel Xerri (eds.), English for 20th century sklls (Newbury: Express Publishing, 2020), 156-8
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Afterword to Kitchen Table Lingopublished for The English Project (London: Virgin Books, 2008), 207-810.16.2008
Afterword to The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic PrescriptivismConcluding chapter in Joan C Beal, Morana Lukac & Robin Straaijer (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism (LondonL Routledge, 2023), 464-72.05.01.2023
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A-level primersCouse 1: 1 English - the global language; 2 Accents and dialects; 3 Playing with language; 4 Being pragmatic about pragmatics; 5 Language and ICT.  Course II: 1 The importance of grammar; 2 Tone of voice; 3 Language and literature; 4 Child language acquisition; 5 The death of languages. (Devon County Council Curriculum Services: Media Education Centre, 2003).05.01.2003
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
American English in EuropeIn C. Bigsby (ed), Superculture: American popular culture and Europe (London: Elek, 1975), 57-6803.18.1975
American lessonsBusiness Traveller, March 1997, 40-1. [Original title: Do you speak American?]03.01.1997
An approach to a reply.Le Maître Phonétique 122, 1964, 23-401.01.1964
An encyclopedic dictionary of language and languagesOxford: Blackwell, 1992, 428 pp. 0 631 17652 7; paperback edition, 1994 (Harmondsworth: Penguin), 428 pp. 0 14 051234 901.01.1992
An English family of languages?in P. Griffiths, A.J. Merrison and A. Bloomer (eds), Language in use: a reader (London: Routledge, 2010), 200-201 [adapted from English as a Global Language]01.01.2010
Another look at, well, you know ...English Today 13, 1988, 47-901.01.1988
Artpoints - a proposal for raising the profile of the artsA response to the Arts Council's Draft Strategy 'Yes for Art', 3 June 1998
 11.19.1999
As they say in ZanzibarLondon: HarperCollins, 2006, 717 pp. 0 00 721202 X; US edition (Oxford) 978 0 19 537450 601.01.2006
Aspects of clinical linguistic theory and practiceProceedings of the 1980 Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Speech and Hearing, Perth, 1981, 1-2503.14.1991
Assessing grammar: the languages of LARSP (co-editor)(eds) Martin J Ball, David Crystal & Paul Fletcher (Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011), xiii + 318 pp. 978184769638008.08.2011
Authentic what, who(m) and whenIn J.A. Fishman, et al. (eds), The Fergusonian impact, Vol. I: From phonology to society (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986), 411-1803.23.1986
Back to the futureThe Linguist, January 2011, 10-1301.01.2011
Bad bodementsAround the Globe 44, 2010, 22-302.01.2010
Balancing on the edge of languagePractical English Teaching, March 1987, 5703.01.1987
Basic linguistics and Language acquisitionUniversity of Reading: Reading Centre, 1973. In the Short Talks series for the Centre for the Teaching of Reading, School of Education, University of Reading. No 3 Basic linguistics. No 4 Language acquisition01.01.1973
BBC English: an endangered language [not my title]Speak Up (Milano) 343, October 2013, 44-5 [transcription of audio recording]10.07.2013
Begat: the King James Bible and the English language(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) 327 pp. 9780199585854, (p/b) 2011, 978019969518806.08.2010
Behind the CEens 1 and 2CUP Newsletter, Moscow, 199703.14.1997
Being bethumpedAround the Globe 26, 2004, 14-1501.01.2004
Being bilingual: facts and fictionsIBBY Link 62, Autumn 2022, 4-7.10.01.2022
Being boysterousAround the Globe 37, 2007, 28-910.01.2007
Being pragmatic about grammararticle written in February 2008 [no further details available]02.07.2008
Beyond BabelCompleted in 1991 (Foreign Office: Infonation, 2001), an in-depth look at global English, available on DVD with additional sequences, interactive menus, and multi-language options.01.01.1991
Book of a Lifetime: The Oxford English DictionaryThe Independent: Arts and Books, 1 October 2010, 3010.01.2010
Boswell: the neglected lexicographerPaper delivered to the Boswell Society, London, 18 May 2013, published in The Boswell Society 2014, 56-6105.18.2013
Bridges between technology and tradition [in Romanian]In Cristina Cheveresan (ed.), Dialoguri in era E-reader (Institutul European, 2012), 223-48; Romanian translation, 103-2706.13.2012
Broadcasting the nonstandard languageIn Richard Watts and Peter Trudgill (eds), Alternative histories of English: alternative perspectives (Routledge, 2002), 233-4401.01.2002
But one word moreAround the Globe 12, 1999, 18-1912.01.1999
By hook or by crook: a journey in search of English(London: HarperCollins, 2006), xiv + 314 pp. 978 0 00 723558 2; p/b (2007) with 14-page PS section, 978 0 00 723557 5; American edition new title:Walking English01.01.2006
CarrolludicityPaper to 'The Lewis Carroll Phenomenon' conference, University of Cardiff, April 199804.07.1998
Catch thisAround the Globe 22, 2002, 14-1504.01.2002
CEELing my fateIATEFL Voices 269, 2019, 5-707.07.2019
Celebrating 100 issues of English Today and musing on museumsEnglish Today, 100, 2009, 24-712.01.2009
Child language, learning and linguistics(London: Edward Arnold, 1976), 106 pp. 0 7131 5890 5; 0 7131 5891 3 Japanese translation, 1980, 1382 260023 5625 Spanish translation, 1981, Lenguaje infantil, aprendizaje y lingüistica (Barcelona: Editorial Médica y Técnica), ix+126 pp. 84 85298 63 203.14.1976
Child language, learning and linguistics(London: Edward Arnold, 1987), 2nd edn v+106 pp. 0 7131 6492 103.14.1987
Citing Scripture for my purposeAround the Globe 48, 2011, 20-2104.30.2011
CL&P's first fifteen years: an introductory comment. [followed by an Index]Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 16, 2003, 487-57203.14.2003
Climbing the language mountainIn 'The early years: embracing the challenges', Proceedings of the Early Years of Schooling Conference, July 1997, Melbourne, 33-4107.07.1997
Clinical linguisticsDisorders of Human Communication 3 (Vienna & New York: Springer, 1981), xii+228 pp. 3 211 81622 4; 0 387 81622 4; paperback edition (London: Arnold), 0 7131 6506 5; paperback edition (London: Whurr), with additional references, xiii+230 pp. 1 870332 65 203.14.1981
Clinical linguisticsIn M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller, The Blackwell Handbook of Linguistics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), 673-8203.14.2001
Clinical linguistics3000-word adaptation of the paper with the same title written for the Blackwell Handbook (2001), in Jack S Damico & Martin J Ball (eds), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (2019).05.01.2019
Clinical linguistics: conversational reflectionsClinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 27 (4), 2013, 236-4304.13.2013
Coining it (lexically)English Today 24, 1990, 45-610.01.1990
Collocating auspiciouslyAround the Globe 10, 1999, 34-5; reprinted in e magazine 5 (Sep 1999), 20-2105.01.1999
Come salvare le lingue a rischioMadrelingua (September 2013), 1-209.14.2013
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Commentary on ¸Vocal communication in pre-verbal normal and autistic children´In N. O'Connor (ed), Language, cognitive deficits and retardation (London: Butterworths, 1975), 81-503.14.1975
Commentary on Dylan Thomas extractIn C. Shewell & V. Dean (eds), A way with words (Sinclair Browne, 1982), 58-903.14.1982
Commentary on 'The English language in a global context'In R. Quirk & H. Widdowson (eds), English in the world (Cambridge: CUP, 1985), 9-1001.01.1985
Communicating science in the 21st centuryPaper for the English-Speaking Union Science Conference on 'English and the Communication of Science', 10 March 2005. See 'English and the communication of science', Moderna Språk (centenary issue), 2006, 20-3301.01.2006
Comprehending (and uncomprehending) comprehension: from top to bottom and back againThe NAPLIC Conference 1995 (National Association of Professionals concerned with Language-Impaired Children), 9-1203.14.1995
Computing St Paul2 talks, BBC Third Programme, March 1965.03.01.1965
Concepts of language development: a realistic perspectiveIn W. Yule & M. Rutter (eds), Language development and disorders (London: Mac Keith Press, 1987), 42-5203.14.1987
Conclusion to Analysing Religious DiscourseConcluding chapter in Stephen Pihlaja (ed.), Analysing Religious Discourse (Cambridge: CUP, 2021), 348-57.10.01.2021
Contributions to Wordpower: A-Z of Usage; Language Lobbies; Declining standardsThe Sunday Times, March 199303.01.1993
Contrived sign language (with E. Craig)In I. Schlesinger & L. Namir (eds),Current trends in the study of sign languages of the deaf (New York: Academic Press, 1978), 141-6803.14.1978
Convent (with J.C. Davies)(Holyhead: Holy Island Press, 1989), 130 pp. 0 9513063 1 603.14.1989
Coping with change in applied linguistics (in conversation with Christopher Brumfit)Journal of Applied Linguistics 1.3, 2004, 383-98 [appeared in 2006]01.01.2004
CovocabularyBlog post for Linguistics Reflections, Cambridge University Press, 20 May 202005.20.2020
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
Crypto-bilinguals. Review-article of A.P. Cowie (ed.), The Oxford History of English LexicographyTimes Literary Supplement, 9 October 2009, 28-910.09.2009
Crystal clearInterview by Andrew Peck in Communicator (The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, Autumn 2014), 64-509.13.2014
Current trends in ChomskyNew Blackfriars 53 (620), 1972, 23-3204.08.1972
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Heat 0 7131 0381 7; reprinted with Japanese notes in Enjoy Science (Tokyo: Asahi, 1984), no ISBN01.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Light 0 7131 0380 901.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Sound 0 7131 0379 5; reprinted with Japanese notes in Enjoy Science (Tokyo: Asahi, 1984), no ISBN01.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Roads 0 7131 0377 901.01.1979
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Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Railways 01.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Canals 0 7131 0376 001.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Monasteries 0 7131 0395 701.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Manors 0 7131 0394 901.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Castles 0 7131 0393 001.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Money 0 7131 0390 601.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Parliament 0 7131 0391 401.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Newspapers 0 7131 0392 201.01.1979
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Air 0 7131 0633 609.01.1982
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Food 0 7131 0631 X09.01.1982
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Electricity 0 7131 0837 1; reprinted with Japanese notes in Enjoy Science (Tokyo: Asahi, 1984), no ISBN09.01.1983
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Motorcycles 0 7131 0836 309.01.1984
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Computers 0 7131 0838 X; reprinted with Japanese notes in Enjoy Science (Tokyo: Asahi, 1984), no ISBN09.01.1984
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Horses and ponies 0 7131 0839 809.01.1984
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Normans 0 7131 0949 109.01.1984
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Vikings 0 7131 0947 509.01.1984
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Celts 0 7131 0989 009.01.1984
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Anglo-Saxons 0 7131 0948 309.01.1984
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Fishing 0 7131 0946 709.01.1985
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Stone Age 0 7131 7300 909.01.1985
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Volcanoes 0 7131 0632 809.01.1982
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Greeks 0 7131 0556 908.01.1981
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Romans 0 7131 0554 208.01.1981
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)The Ancient Egyptians 0 7131 0555 008.01.1981
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Deserts 0 7131 0828 209.01.1983
Databank series (with J.L. Foster)Dinosaurs 0 7131 0829 009.01.1983
Datasearch series (with J.L. Foster)Air and breathing 0 340 52222 401.01.1991
Datasearch series (with J.L. Foster)Light and seeing 0 340 52225 901.01.1991
Datasearch series (with J.L. Foster)Sound and hearing 0 340 52223 201.01.1991
Datasearch series (with J.L. Foster)Heating and cooling 0 340 52224 001.01.1991
David CrystalIn Keith Brown, Vivien Law and R H Robins (eds), Linguistics in Britain: Personal Histories. (London: Philological Society, 2002), 91-10303.14.2002
David Crystal's 50 questions about English usage(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), in the series Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers (ed/ Scott Thornbury), 112 pp. 9781108959186.03.04.2021
David Crystal's Introduction to Language [DVD]recorded 20 October 2010 at King's College London, published 2011. The Routledge Lectures - six 30-min lectures divided into two parts: Language, communication and pragmatics; The structure of language; The mode of transmission; Language in use: temporal variation; Language in use; regional, social and personal variation; Language and discourse. ISBN 0780415602679
 10.20.2010
David Crystal: Neologismy zboznuji. InterviewFilmove Listy, 25 July 2007, 2-307.25.2007
Dear WillContribution to a schools event at the Globe, May 200605.07.2006
Death sentenceThe Guardian G2, 25 October 1999, 2-3; adaptation of Prospect article by The Guardian.10.25.1999
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Degree courses in linguisticsRevue de Phonétique Appliquée, 196801.01.1968
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Developmental intonologyIn W. Von Raffler-Engel & Y. Lebrun (eds), Baby talk and infant speech (Amsterdam, 1976), Proceedings of the Florence Symposium on First Language Acquisition, 1972, 56-6503.14.1976
Dialecte coach wanted: applye withinAround the Globe 39, 2008, 32-306.01.2008
Dictionary and thesaurus in the digital environmentContribution to 'The OED Symposium: defining the future', 1 August 2013, Oxford08.01.2013
Dictionary of English-Speaking Peoples: ProposalReport to Cassells Publishers, 196701.01.1967
Did Johnson fix English spelling?The New Rambler (Journal of the Johnson Society of London, 2012-13), 21-312.08.2012
Directions in applied linguisticsLondon: Academic Press, 1981, vii+179 pp. 0 12 198420 601.01.1981
Discover grammarLondon: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996, 159 pp. 0 582 29435 501.01.1996
Disorders of speechMimms Magazine 2 (1), 1978, 15-1703.14.1978
Dissemination Service Research Project(Diploma in Remedial Language Studies). Final Report to Department of Education and Science and AFASIC, 198506.14.1985
Distractions(play for radio), 1983, written for the Radio Times radio play competition, Radio 4 sponsoring producer Alan Wilding03.14.1983
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
Do as I say, not as I do. Review of Simon Heffer, Strictly English,New Statesman, 11 October 2010, 5110.11.2010
Documenting rhythmical changeIn J. Windsor Lewis (ed), Studies in general and English phonetics (London: Routledge, 1994), 174-901.01.1994
Does Shakespeare need translating?talk for Lingua Franca, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, written 6 September 200209.06.2002
Dot your commasReview of Cecelia Watson, Semicolon, The Spectator, 10 August 2019, 3502.23.2020
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: an Anthology(London: Penguin Classics, 2005), xlv+650 pp. 0 713 99887 311.01.2005
Early interest in Shakespearean Original PronunciationLanguage & History 56 (1), 2013, 5-1705.06.2013
Edinburgh linguistryFive lexical items for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The Times 8 August 200708.08.2007
Edit it again, SamThe Author 111(2), 2000, 82-3. [adaptation and update of 1990 article]03.14.2000
Editing an encyclopedia - features, facts and fantasiesUnpublished paper.03.14.1990
Editing it like it isn'tPublishing News, 199003.14.1990
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Editor's notes for Child Language Teaching and TherapyIssue 2 (1), 1986, 124 (2 books); 2 (3), 1986, 368-71 (4 books); 5(3), 1989, 368-9 (4 books); 12 (3), 1996, 378-9 (2 books);03.12.1986
Editorial to the inaugural issue of JCLJournal of Child Language 1(1), May 1974, i-ii05.01.1974
Electronic EnglishChapter 12 of Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech, English: One Tongue, Many Voices, 2nd edn (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 224-23607.25.2016
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Elements of early language developmentMEIU Conference on Screening Procedures in Child Health Clinics, Cambridge, September 198303.14.1983
Emerging EnglishesEnglish Teaching Professional 14, 3-6, 2000; reworked version for Spotlight, as as 'English: Which Way Now?', April 2000, 54-58; reproduced on e-mesh ltd web site, Nov 200001.01.2000
En inglés en el nuevo milenioImpresiones (The British Council, Madrid, 1999), Winter, 20-112.01.1999
Engaging with public engagement: a personal retrospectiveIn Hazel Price & Dan McIntyre (eds), Communicating linguistics: language community and public engagement (London: Routledge, 2023), 220-31.04.25.2023
Englexit or Englentrance?The Linguist 56 (4), 2017, 7-908.21.2017
EnglishIn Word classes (special volume of Lingua) 17, 1966, 24-5604.08.1966
English - is it still one language?Spotlight, 8, 2016, 36-808.08.2016
English accentsEnglish teaching (Rio de Janeiro: The British Council, 1967) 1, 3-901.01.1967
English and the communication of scienceModerna Språk C1 (centenary issue), 2006, 20-33 [adaptation of 2005 paper]01.01.2006
English as a Classical languageOmnibus 42, 2001, 21-201.01.2001
English as a global languageCambridge: CUP, 1997, x+150 pp. 0 521 59247 X; Canto edition, 1998, 0 521 62994 2; Russian edition, 2001 (Vesmir), 5 7777 0114 0; Japanese edition with notes, Tokyo: Shohakusha, 2000, 4 88198 492 6; Chinese edition, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2001, 7 5600 2369 X; Cambridge: CUP, 2003, 2nd edition (shown here), xv+212 pp. 0 521 82347 1; paperback edition 0 521 53032 6; Complex Chinese edition, 2007 (Owl Publishing), 978 986 7001 41 2; Canto Classics edn 2012 9781107611801; earlier version published privately as English: the global language (Washington: US English, 1996), x+134 pp. No ISBN01.01.1997
English at the crossroadsInterview in Spotlight, February 2001, 14-1702.01.2001
English grammar in the UK: a political historySupplementary material to Making Sense: the Glamorous Story of English Grammar (Profile, 2017)01.05.2017
English in the moviesBlog post to accompany the launch of the thrid edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language,  Cambridge University Press, 29 November 2018.11.29.2018
English in the New WorldFinancial Times Millennium Supplement, 199901.01.2002
English in the New Worldin Connecting (British Council, North India, West India, South India), November.]01.01.2002
BBC Radio 4 series
English now6 talks for Radio 4, May-July 1984; (2nd series) 10 talks for Radio 4, April-July 1985; (3rd series) 10 talks for Radio 4, May-July 198605.01.1984
English todayIn M. Manser & N. Turton, The Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987)03.19.1987
English worldwideIn R. Hogg and D. Denison (eds), A History of the English Language (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), 420-39; adapted by the Open University for Philip Seargeant & Joan Swann (eds), English in the world: history, diversity, change (Routledge, 2012), 152-7701.01.2006
English: A status reportSpotlight, September 2011, 28-3309.01.2011
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Entries in T. McArthur (ed)Oxford Companion to the English Language (Oxford: OUP, 1992)01.01.1992
Eric Partridge: in his own words (ed.)London: Deutsch/New York: Macmillan, 1980, 251 pp. 0 233 97300 1; 0 02 528960 801.01.1980
Essential grammarIn The Longman Essential Activator (London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997), 911-93601.01.1997
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EtymologyIn B. Pattison (ed.), The mind of man (London: Grolier, 1966), 101-501.01.1966
Eurolinguistic unionIn A love-letter to Europe (Coronet, 2019), 191-211.23.2019
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German huntingAround the Globe 46, 2010, 24-510.01.2010
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
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Go deeper into Mystery with John Bradburne's poetry of The TrinityOremus 141, 2009, 10-1103.14.2009
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Interlanguage on the InternetThe Hong Kong Linguist 19-20, 1999, 12-15. (Adaptation of 'Interpreting interlanguage', 1998.)01.01.1999
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Language: medium, barrier, or Trojan horse?Conference on 'Cultural diplomacy at the crossroads: cultural relations in Europe and the wider world' Wilton House, 26 November 199711.26.1997
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BBC World Service series
The story of English (with Tom McArthur)18 scripts for BBC World Service, 198709.01.1987
The story of English in 100 words(London: Profile, 2011) xxi + 260 pp. 9781846684272; p/b (2012) 9781846684289; p/b (New York: St Martin's Press, Picador edition, 2013) 9781250024206; Japanese translation (2013) 9789867120557; audio book from Audiogo, 8 CDs, 7 hr 55 min. 9781445865195; (Chivers Audiobooks, CCD 2774) 9781445860626; (Sound Library, SLD 2882) 9780792791546; Chinese translation (New Star Press, 2023) 978751335195810.08.2011
The story of English punctuation: Making a Pointemagazine 71, 2016, 9-1102.02.2016
The story of languageBroadcast talk, The Essay, Radio 3, 3 June 201606.03.2016
The story of Ucheldre(Holyhead: Holy Island Press, 2007), 72 pp. 0 951 30638 306.14.2007
The structure and function of languagePaper for the meeting on Language development and communication problems of the handicapped, The Medical Education and Information Unit of the Spastics Society, Oxford, January 198403.14.1984
The structure of languageIn R. Beard (ed.), Teaching literacy: balancing perspectives (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993), 15-21. Revised reprint of Ch. 1 of Child language, learning and linguistics07.07.1993
The tongue that Shakespeare really spokeBabel 7 (May 2014), 14-1805.07.2014
The typewriterA play for television12.01.1983
The ugliest wordsGuardian Review, 18 July 2009, 507.18.2009
The unbelievable Hamlet discovery(Holyhead: Crystal Books, 2016), 72 pp. 978190945919904.01.2016
The visitPlay for television, written after the visit of Pope John Paul II to the UK in May 198203.14.1983
The world in which we live in: Beatles, blends and blogsPlenary paper to IATEFL annual conference, Liverpool, 9 April 2013, shortened version in Tania Pattison (ed), IATEFL 2013 (Faversham: IATEFL, 2014), 10-1704.09.2013
The world of languageTokyo: Shohakusha, 2002, iv+142 pp. 4 88198 530 2 (selections from CEL 2nd edition by Hajime Narita)07.01.2002
The world's favourite languageSpeak Up (Milano) 341, August 2013, 42-3 [transcription of audio recording]; also in SpeakUp Speciale 7, October 2016, 24-508.07.2013
Therapie du langage: les fondements linguistiquesIn Actes Scientifiques du Congrès International d'Orthophonie, Nice (Paris: Fédération Nationale des Orthophonistes, 1988), 21-8; Speech therapy: the linguistic foundation, 29-3605.14.1988
Things to remember when transcribing speechChild Language Teaching and Therapy 1 (2), 1985, 235-903.15.1985
Think on my words: exploring Shakespeare's languageCambridge: CUP, 2008, xii+254 pp. 978 0 521 87694 0; Canto Classics edn 2012, 978 1 107 61180 102.01.2008
Thinking about dictionariesBBC English, November 1970, 8-911.08.1970
This man is worth £100,000 a year[their title] High Life (British Airways), June 2000, 104-806.07.2000
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This was your life(end-of-year play, UCL), 196106.14.1961
Those tricksy words.Around the Globe 8 (Winter 1998), 34-506.01.1998
To be Englished rightlyAround the Globe 34, 2006, 26-2711.01.2006
To modernize or not to modernize: there is no questionAround the Globe 21, 2002, 15-17; adapted as talk for Lingua Franca, 'Does Shakespeare's English need translating?' (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2003)03.01.2002
To surf or not to surf: that is the questionThe Ben Bowen Thomas lecture (Arts Council of Wales), 21 November 1996; published in Network 1, December 1998, 3-1011.21.1996
To use or not to use ...English Today 1, 1985, 2701.01.1985
Too few words for the futureThe Age, Extra (Melbourne), 14 August 1999, 8. [Original title: Writing about writing about language]08.14.1999
Towards a 'bucket' theory of language disability: taking account of interaction between linguistic levelsClinical Linguistics and Phonetics 1, 1987, 7-2203.14.1987
Towards a philosophy of language diversityPaper given to conference on 'Dialogue of Cultures', Reykjavik, 14 April 200504.14.2005
Towards a philosophy of language managementKeynote paper at the conference 'Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education', Maastricht, 28 June 2006; in Robert Wilkinson & Ver Zegers (eds), Researching Content and Language in Higher Education (Maastricht Language Centre, 2007), 19-31.06.28.2006
Towards a typographical linguisticsType 2(1), Spring 1998, 7-2304.07.1998
Trade descriptions aptReader's Digest, May 1987, 7505.01.1987
Translating Shakespeare into English: a debate, with John McWhorter and Ben CrystalIn Dudley Knight (ed.), A world of voice: voice and speech across culture, Voice and Speech Trainers Association, 2011, 38-5101.06.2011
Trying to keep up with EnglishLingua Franca (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), November 200311.01.2003
Twenty years that changed the English languageE mag 61 (London: English and Media Centre), September 2013, 6-809.01.2013
Twenty-first century EnglishKeynote speech to IATEFL Annual Conference, March 200103.01.2001
Two thousand million?English Today 24 (1), March 2008, 3-6 [update: estimate in The Cambridge Enyclopedia of the English Language, 3rd edn 2019: 2.3. billion]03.01.2008
TXT NY1?In Susan Tresman and Ann Cooke (eds),The dyslexia handbook (Reading: British Dyslexia Association, 2006), 179-83 [expansion of New Statesman 2003 article]01.01.2006
Txting: the gr8 db8Oxford: OUP, 2008, ix + 239 pp. 9780199544905; (p/b) (2009) 9780199571338; Chinese translation (Taipei: Good Morning Press, 2010) 250 pp. 978986661318001.01.2008
Txtng: frNd or foe?The Threlford Memorial Lecture, The Linguist 47 (6), 2008, 8-1104.06.2008
Tyndale's Bible: Saint Matthew's Gospel in original pronunciation(London: The British Library, 2013), 2 CDs (duration 148 mins), NSACD 112-113, with introductory essay07.01.2013
Un-finishedAround the Globe 17, 2001, 22-304.01.2001
Unhappy mortalsArticle on Johnson's Dictionary, written in 2010 [publication details not available]01.13.2010
ur a gd mn mr gum;-)The Zurich Magazine, Summer/Autumn 2010, 908.01.2010
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Usage notes to Readers Digest Great Illustrated Dictionary10.01.1984
Vanishing languagesCivilization (Library of Congress), February-March 1997, 40-45; reprinted in Annual Editions: Geography, 1998-9, 212-1602.01.1997
Verbal reasoningSubject Scan in Which Course, 2000, 26-707.07.2000
VerbingAround the Globe 7 (1998), 20-21; reprinted in Modern English Teacher 9 (1), 2000, 18-1903.01.1998
Vice-presidential address to SfEPIn Editing Matters, November-December 2004, 111.14.2004
Viva voce!Llandudno October Festival, 1994, 7-8, 5210.14.1994
Voices: a case study in the evolution of a linguistic climate at the BBCIn Clive Upton and Bethan L. Davies (eds.), Analysing 21st-century British English: conceptual and methodological aspects of the 'Voices' project (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013), 12-2505.11.2013
Walking English: a journey in search of language(New York: Overlook Press, 2009), US p/b edition with new title for By hook or by crook: a journey in search of English (2007) 978159020263010.08.2009
Watch your language: top books on the history and use of English05.20.2006
Watch your language: top books on the history and use of EnglishFive Best: Wall Street Journal, 20 May 200605.20.2006
Watching World English growIATEFL Nesletter, 1997; adapted for English-Speaking Union, Autumn 1997, 6-702.01.1997
We are not amused: Victorian views on pronunciation as told in the pages of Punch(Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2017). 978185124478210.09.2017
Weighing up WilliamismsAround the Globe 3 (1997), 9; reprinted in Modern English Teacher (8:2, 1999), 20-2103.01.1997
Well, well, wellAround the Globe 29, 2005, 16-1703.01.2005
Were you on your auditory mettle?Around the Globe 32, 2006, 32-404.01.2006
What can this cock-pit hold?Around the Globe 4 (1997), 19; reprinted in Modern English Teacher (8:3, 1999), 15-1606.01.1997
What do we do with an International Year of Languages?Paper given to the UNESCOCat forum, Barcelona, European Languages Day, 26 September 2007; reprinted in Bosnistika Plus 1 (2013), 121-3309.26.2007
What do we do with an International Year of Languages?Letter to Language with editor's reply, Language, 84 (2), 2008, 215-1709.06.2008
What do YOU call it?with Hilary Crystal; children's book for the series D-Mind and the Prince, with illustrations by Mattia Cerato (Hong Kong: D-Mind Education Limited), 44 pp. 9789888662982; an introduction to British and American English vocabulary.11.01.2020
What is linguistics?London: Edward Arnold, 1968 (shown here), viii + 84 pp. 0 7131 5381 4; 0 7131 5382 2; Japanese edition with notes, 1969 (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin), No ISBN; 2nd edn (1969), viii + 88 pp. (Reprinted with amendments, 1971) 0 7131 5482 9; 0 7131 5483 7; Japanese translation (1975), 1382 260012 5625; 3rd edn (1974), viii + 83 pp. 0 7131 5741 0 (Reprinted with amendments, 1977, 1982); Portuguese translation 1981, Que é lingüística? (Rio de Janeiro: Ao Livro Técnico S/A), xii+60 pp. 85 215 0052 1; 4th edn (1985), x + 83 pp. 0 7131 6443 3; Turkish translation, Dilbilim Nedir? (Ankara: Pegem Akademi, 2016) 978 605 318 485 0.01.01.1968
What is Standard English?Concorde (English-Speaking Union), 1994, 24-609.01.1994
What time is it?Around the Globe 13, 2000, 22-301.01.2000
What was that again?English Today 14, 1988, 52-304.01.1988
Whatever happened to theolinguistics?In Paul Chilton & Monika Kopytowska (eds), Religion, language, and the human mind (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 3-1809.24.2013
What's in a name, Bob?English Today 36, 1993, 53-410.01.1993
BBC Radio 4 series
When language breaks down4 talks for BBC Radio 4, June-July 198306.14.1983
Where Dull is dull, but Feeble is braveReview of Laurie Maguire, Shakespeare's Names, Around the Globe 38, 2008, 46-703.01.2008
Which English - or English Which?In M. Hayhoe & S. Parker (eds), Who owns English? (Open University Press, 1994), 108-1408.01.1994
Who cares about English usage?Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984, 124 pp. 0 14 02.2544 7; 0 14 008315 4; Japanese translation, 1985, no ISBN; Japanese translation, 1986, 4 385 43129 9; updated edition (2000, shown here), 128 pp. 0 14 028951 801.01.1984
Who cares about language?article written for a quarterly magazine, November 2006 [no further details available]11.02.2006
Who pays the piper calls the tune: changing linguistic goals in the service of industry. A case studyIn D Prys and B Williams (eds), Global Understanding in Multilingual, Multimodal and Multimedia Contexts (GUM3C) (Bangor: Language Technologies Unit), Conference at Bangor University, 22-23 August 2008, 39-4608.23.2008
Who would of thought it? The English language 1966-2066Plenary paper to IATEFL, 13 March 2016, Birmingham, UK; abridged version in T. Pattison (ed.), IATEFL 2016: Birmingham Conference Selections (Faversham: IATEFL, 2017), 107-14; reprinted in Anglo Files 184, May 2017 (Danish Association of Teachers of English), 62-73.03.13.2016
Who's John Wayne?Guest post for Schott's Vocab, opinion page in The New York Times, 4 August 201008.04.2010
Why care about libraries? Inaugural W D Owen Lecture, Friends of Rhosneigr Library, 17 January 2011
 01.17.2011
Why did he say it?English Today 17, 1989, 41-201.01.1989
Why did the crowd think St Peter was drunk? An exercise in applied sociolinguisticsNew Blackfriars 79 (No. 924), February 1998, 72-7602.23.1998
Why do we speak English?In Gemma Elwin Harris (ed), Big Questions from Little People (London: Faber and Faber, 2012, in aid of thre NSPCC)10.04.2012
Why LARSP?Blog post to accompany the publication of Grammatical profiles: further languages of LARSP (2019), Last two paragraphs contributed by Martin Ball and Paul Fletcher.07.26.2019
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Will´s wordsRegular column on Shakespeare's 'false friends' in Times Education Supplement Teachers´ Magazine, May 2002 to July 2006, weekly in term time.05.24.2002
Will's Word Warriors [with Ben Crystal]booklet for Shakespeare Week 2019, 8 pp. published by The Shakespeaer Birthplace Trust, illustrations by Marcia Williams. No ISBN03.01.2019
Word for wordNew Media Age, 13 March 2008, 22-303.13.2008
Word of the month: The letter eWord of the month, Catholic Herald 6606, September 2020, 6209.15.2020
Word of the month that wasn't: Tourism

For seven months in 2020 I wrote a 'Word of the Month' piece for the Catholic Herald, and then the editor decided to drop the column - but not before I'd written the eighth in the series, anticipating December.

12.01.2020
Word of the month: BlursdayWord of the month, Catholic Herald 6604, July 2020, 62
 06.15.2020
Word of the month: ExitWord of the month, Catholic Herald 6603, June 2020, 62
 06.15.2020
Word of the month: HappyWord of the month, Catholic Herald 6608, November 2020, 6211.01.2020
Word of the month: Social distancingPhrase of the month, Catholic Herald 6602, May 2020, 6205.15.2020
Word of the month: TypoWord of the month, Catholic Herald 6605, August 2020, 62
 08.15.2020
Word of the month: VacationWord of the month, Catholic Herald 6607, October 2020, 6210.15.2020
BBC Home Service talk
Words and workTalk, BBC Home Service, March 196503.01.1965
Words in time and place: exploring language through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), xvi + 288 pp. 978019968047409.20.2014
Words on words: quotations on language and languages (with Hilary Crystal)(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000), xi+580 pp. 0 14 029134 2; paperback edition, 2001, 0 14 051418 X; US edition by Chicago University Press, 2000, 0 226 12201 8; e-book edition (Crystal Books Project, 2013)01.01.2000
Words, words and holy words in ShakespeareThinking Faith, online article04.19.2016
Words, words, words(Oxford: OUP, 2006), viii+216 pp. 0 19 861444 6; Korean translation, 2010 (Sotong), 978899345433801.01.2006
Wordsmiths and Warriors: the David Crystal InterviewBabel 6 (February 2014), 14-15, accompanied by an extract from the book02.11.2014
Wordsmiths and Warriors: the English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain[with Hilary Crystal], Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, vii + 424 pp, 9780199668120; p/b edn 2015, 9780198729136; chapter 4 reprinted in Babel 6 (February 2014), 14-17, with interview09.07.2013
Working with LARSP(London: Edward Arnold, 1979), viii+359 pp. 0 7131 6118 303.14.1979
World English: How? Why? When? Where? Which? Whither?English Language Teaching News 31, 1997 (The British Council and IATEFL), 52-75; also in ELT Links (Vienna Symposium, 1996), 9-1401.01.1997
World English: past, present, futurePaper to ASKO Europa-Stiftung symposium on Weltgesellschaft, Weltverkehrssprache, Weltkultur, 'Globalisierung vs. Fragmentierung', 11-13 June 1999, Otzenhausen; adapted to a German context for Bernd Huppauf Proceedings, 200206.11.1999
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Would you have marked it wrong? and FachfragePraxis des neusprachlichen Unterrichts 15, 1968: 209-10, 285, 309-12, 402, 422-5; 16, 1969: 91, 121, 200, 228-31, 325, 350-1, 427, 454-5; 17, 1970: 60, 97-100, 102-3, 191, 208-10, 311, 326-8, 419, 441-3; 18, 1971: 68, 95-6, 98-9, 200, 215-16, 260, 326-7, 330-2, 402, 434-6; 19, 1972: 57, 69-70, 166, 173-4, 219, 282, 289-90, 330-1, 390, 397, 437; 20, 1973: 53, 60-1, 101, 156, 162-3, 213, 328; 21, 1974: 62, 164-5, 282, 386-7, 433-4; 22, 1975: 41, 50-1, 168, 178-80, 324-5, 362, 378-9
 01.01.1968
Writing about writing about languagefor the Melbourne Writers Festival, 1999; published under the heading: Too few words for the future' in The Age (Extra), Melbourne, 14 August 1999, 9
 08.14.1999
Writing By Hook or by CrookArticle written for HarperCollins to accompany the launch of the paperback edition.09.21.2008
Yiddish rulesWritten in relation to the paperback edition (2007) of Dovid Katz, Words on Fire: the Unfinished Story of Yiddish (New York: Basic Books, 2004)
 05.16.2009
You know 'you know'?TESOL Greece Newsletter 35, July-September 1992, 9-1107.01.1992
BBC Radio 3 talks
You said it2 scripts for BBC Radio 3, 197603.01.1976
You Say Potato: a Book about Accents[with Ben Crystal] (Macmillan, 2014), 248 pp; (h/b) 9781447249696; (p/b, 2015, shown here) 9781447255468; audio book available10.07.2014
Your turnEnglish Today 32, 1992, 43-410.01.1992
Zukunft vieler Sprachen sieht düster ausKlett ThemenDienst, Schule, Wissen, Bildung 6, April 2001, 7-1004.15.2001