Now in its third edition The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most
comprehensive coverage of the history structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated
and expanded with a fresh redesigned layout and over sixty audio resources to bring language
extracts to life it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of
English with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation updated statistics on
global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit
Europe regional and social variations with fresh insights into the growing cultural
identities of 'new Englishes' English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities
forensic studies and 'big data' in corpus linguistics and digital developments including the
emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook Twitter and
WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations photographs maps tables and graphs
this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English
language enthusiasts.
