Babel is pleased to announce our second annual lecture, which will be given by David Crystal. The lecture will take place on the 13th May, 2016 in the beautiful surroundings of St Paul’s Hall at the University of Huddersfield, and is free for all to attend.<\/p>\n
David Crystal is a celebrated linguist, as well as being Babel’s very own Linguistic Consultant. He has published widely on languages and linguistics, with encyclopedic works such as\u00a0The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Linguistics\u00a0and accessible introductions to aspects of English such as\u00a0The Stories of English\u00a0and the recent\u00a0Making a Point, a history of English punctuation. David has also been published in Babel, with articles ontraveling Britain as an\u00a0English language tourist\u00a0and unravelling\u00a0the sound of Shakespeare’s plays.<\/p>\n
David’s lecture is titled ‘The English Tone of Voice’, and will explore what phonetics and the analysis of tone can tell us about just about everything, including sex, spies and\u00a0Star Wars.<\/p>\n
The lecture will also mar<\/span><\/span>k the publication of the fifteenth issue of Babel. If you have not yet subscribed to our 2016 issues, visit our\u00a0subscribe\u00a0page – we’ll send you the hot-off-the-press\u00a0issue 14\u00a0 and also\u00a0make sure you have issue 15 in time for the lecture!<\/p>\n