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David Crystal, né le 6 juillet 1941 est un linguiste, universitaire et auteur britannique. Il est décoré de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique, membre de la British Academy et de la Learned Society of Wales . Wikipedia  

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“The only languages that do not change are dead ones.”

Source: How Language Works, 2007, p. 357
Contexte: However language began, one thing is certain – it immediately began to change, and has been changing ever since. Languages are always in a state of flux. Change affects the way people speak as inevitably as it does any other area of human life. Language purists do not welcome it, but they can do very little about it. Language would stand still only if society did. A world of unchanging linguistic excellence, based on the brilliance of earlier literary forms, exists only in fantasy. The only languages that do not change are dead ones.

“There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.”

David Crystal, "Refining stylistic discourse categories," In: G. Melchers & B. Warren (eds), English linguistics in honour of Magnus Ljung (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994), 35-46

“The main metaphor that is used to explain the historical relationship is that of the language family or family tree.”

Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 292

“Fluency [is] smooth, rapid, effortless use of language.”

Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 421

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