书名：Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation听起来很动听:英语发音的故事

作者：David Crystal 

出版社名称：Profile Books 

出版时间：2019 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781781256107 

商品尺寸：13.3 x 1.9 x 20.3 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：304（以实物为准）

Review

Previous praise for David Crystal:

Crystal's book is full of distractions and delights,Refreshing and briskly written ... Crystal shows that grammar is not nearly as tedious as it can seem,If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide,Delicious revelations ... Crystal does an excellent job, not just of tracing the etymology of a word, but of relating it to social history, painting a picture of our times through words "重要的不是你说了什么，而是你说的方式……

关于英语“正确”发音的争论由来已久，英国zui杰出的语言专家David Crystal在这本书中将陈述事实。《听起来很动听》会告诉我们，为什么我们会这么发音，我们是如何发出来的。

David Crystal为他的读者们提供了语音、语言学和生理学的知识——用到了从Eliza Doolittle到Winston Churchill的例子，探索了地方口音的起源，它们如何受到阶级和教育的影响以及它们的特性如何随着时间而变化。"

It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ...

There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do.

Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity. Equipping his readers with knowledge of phonetics, linguistics and physiology - with examples ranging from Eliza Doolittle to Winston Churchill - David Crystal explores the origins of regional accents, how they are influenced by class and education, and how their peculiarities have changed over time.

David Crystalis Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. His many books range from clinical linguistics to the liturgy and Shakespeare. He is the author of The Story of English in 100 Words, Spell It Out: The Singular History of English Spelling, and Making a Point: The Pernickety History of English Punctuation, all published by Profile. His Stories of English is a Penguin Classic.