书名：Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation证明一个观点：英文标点符号的故事

作者：David Crystal
出版社名称：Profile Books
出版时间：2016
语种：英语
ISBN：9781781253519
商品尺寸：13 x 2.1 x 20 cm
包装：平装
页数：400（以实物为准）
想象一下，假如没有了标点符号，句子将会变成怎样？标点符号在书面语言中是不可或缺的辅助工具，它可以帮助人们确切地表达思想感情和理解书面语言。然而，为数不多的标点符号的创造过程却是步履维艰。

本书作者带领我们回溯一千五百多年前，各种标点符号的起源和发展历程，并就如何使用标点符号来满足各种不同的需求提供了合理的建议。

This 'engaging history of punctuation' (Wall Street Journal) is not only the first history of its kind, but a complete guide on how to use English punctuation.

Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, inspiring organisations like the Apostrophe Protection Society and sending enthusiasts, correction-pens in hand, in a crusade against error.

Professor Crystal leads us through this minefield with characteristic wit, clarity and commonsense. He gives a fascinating account of the origin and progress of every kind of punctuation mark over one and a half millennia, and he offers sound advice on how punctuation may be used to meet the needs of every occasion and context.

David Crystalis Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of 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 and Spell It Out: The Singular History of English Spelling, both published by Profile. His Stories of English is a Penguin Classic.